The EU is “fully on track” to ensure all its citizens and residents are able to have a free Covid health pass next month to ease travel, a spokesman has said.

The European Union is keen for anybody living in its 27 countries to be able to get a digital health pass — which the Commission refers to as a “green certificate” — to display their vaccination status, results of Covid-19 tests, and whether they had recovered from a coronavirus infection.

“It will be ready for summer to facilitate safe travelling, so it will be ready to use [...] by the end of June,” a European Commission spokesman, Christian Wigand, told a news conference, according to AFP.

Another spokesman, Johannes Bahrke, added that 18 EU countries plus non-member Iceland would test the digital document over the next two weeks to make sure any bugs were ironed out.