Chile to introduce controversial 'virus-free' ID
Chile's government has said it will just do it with a controversial intend to issue certificates to people who've recovered from Covid-19.
The documents will be given to people to allow them to go back to work, Deputy Health Minister Paula Daza said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is "no evidence" that persons who contract coronavirus are immune from being infected again.
The body said "immunity" certificates could help the virus spread.
Chile has reported 189 virus-related deaths and more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"There happens to be no evidence that persons who have recovered from Covid-19 and also have antibodies are protected from another infection," the WHO said in a briefing note on Friday.
Your body argued that so-called "immunity certificates" can also be harmful, because they could lead people to ignore public health advice and therefore increase the risk of transmitting the disease.
However, MS Daza told reporters on Sunday: "One of the things that we know is a person who has already established the illness includes a lower possibility of becoming ill again."
She added that the certificates would not confirm that people had immunity to Covid-19, but rather state that that they had recovered from the disease and had completed an interval of isolation.
At least 200,000 people have died with the coronavirus around the world, and many governments are now trying to find methods to ease their lockdown restrictions.
