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Vaccine Passports: Israel, Bahrain Reach Landmark Agreement

4/24/2021
A masked passenger at new passenger terminal of Bahrain International Airport on March 29, 2021. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images.

Israel and Bahrain on Thursday reached what Israel calls the world's first bilateral agreement for mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccine passports for quarantine-free travel between two countries, an Israeli diplomat who helped forge the deal tells NPR.