SINGAPORE - Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and talk of so-called "vaccine passports" that serve to digitally prove a person has been vaccinated against the coronavirus to facilitate travel between countries, work on a more all-encompassing digital passport had already begun.
While a vaccine passport cannot replace a person's physical passport for travel, a digital passport could, to an extent.
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