Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told a news conference on Thursday that the government was still not considering the abolishment of COVID certificates.

The government is not changing its policy considering COVID passes, Plenkovic said.

The topic of doing away with COVID passes has been raised since Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for an end to the COVID certificate mandate and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that possibility.

This prompted Dario Hrebak, leader of the Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS), a junior partner in the ruling coalition in Croatia, to state that thought should be given to abolishing COVID certificates.

However, Plenkovic explained that revoking COVID passes is being considered in countries with much higher vaccination rates than in Croatia, adding that Hrebak’s suggestion at the last coalition meeting was just one of the comments.

“We must give doctors some more time to make a decision based on further developments,” the premier said, adding that it was good that the Omicron variant seems to be a milder variant.