COVID-19 “vaccine passport” system in order to keep the pandemic under control and prevent another lockdown this fall, the province’s health minister announced Thursday.“We have to prepare for autumn,” Christian Dubé told reporters in Montreal.The passport will only be used if the epidemiological situation warrants it, he added.
The goal is to stave off a spike in novel coronavirus cases and keep another wave of restrictions off the table when schools reopen and the cold weather sets in.Dubé stressed that vaccination has provided an alternative to imposing restrictions to keep the virus at bay.