Health passports from 1665

From A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.  

This hurry of the people was such for some weeks that there was no getting at the Lord Mayor’s door without exceeding difficulty; there were such pressing and crowding there to get passes and certificates of health for such as travelled abroad, for without these there was no being admitted to pass through the towns upon the road, or to lodge in any inn. Now, as there had none died in the city for all this time, my Lord Mayor gave certificates of health without any difficulty to all those who lived in the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a while.

Parallels with today:

Health passports from 1665. 

Also - where the government has the power, it has control and where there is power and control there is inevitably corruption.