The European Commission is set to propose vaccine passports in time for summer holidays. The idea is to enable people to travel across Europe to help countries’ tourism sector recover.

But how could this work exactly - if at all?

Kieran Cuddihy was joined by Barry Andrews, MEP for the Dublin Constituency and travel editor of the Independent in London Simon Calder.

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