The European Union proposed that COVID-19 vaccine passports should expire after nine months for citizens traveling into and within the 27-member bloc, the executive arm of the union announced on Thursday. “The Commission is proposing a stronger focus on a ‘person-based’ approach to travel measures and a standard acceptance period for vaccination certificates of nine months since the primary vaccination series,” the European Commission (EC) said in a statement. Accepting that the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines wanes over time, the EC is proposing that people should be considered covered if the final dose of their primary vaccination was within the last nine months and that this update should apply from Jan. 10. People who have recently recovered from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus within 180 days before making their trip and have either access to a valid “EU Digital Covid Certificate”—which allows Europeans certain “freedoms”—or a certificate deemed equivalent …