Governments introduced vaccine passports in 2021, as COVID-19 vaccines were more available to the public. Understanding how effective these policies were could help public health officials across the country prepare for future pandemics, the researchers say. Provincial governments, including Saskatchewan's, introduced vaccine passports in 2021, after the first major waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and as people began to get COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers compared vaccination rates, across age groups and time, in the seven weeks before and after vaccine passports were implemented across Canada. Saskatchewan Health Minister Everett Hindley told reporters Tuesday the provincial government is not looking to implement vaccine passports at the moment.

Source: CBC News November 08, 2023 15:17 UTC