LISBON — The popular Portuguese islands of Madeira will allow entry to visitors with any of the COVID-19 jabs being administered worldwide and not only with those approved by Europe’s drug regulator, the regional government said on Sunday.
The European Union, which launched its digital COVID certificate last week, has so far authorized only four vaccines – those of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech, Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
The certificate allows citizens to travel more freely across the bloc if they have been fully vaccinated with one of the four approved shots, received a recent negative test result or have immunity due to recent recovery…
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