Up to 24 countries are expected to be moved from the Red List to the Green list later this week, but a new travel system is being devised which would be based purely on vaccination status.
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More than 300,000 arrivals from 'Amber List' countries are suspected to have broken quarantine rules between March and May – close to a third of all arrivals from these destinations in this time.
The U.K.'s four Chief Medical Officers have advised that healthy teenagers should be given Covid jabs, meaning the Government will push on with its roll-out despite being warned by the JCVI of the risk of side effects.
Number 10 is already downplaying the idea that vaccine passports are dead and buried, insisting that they could still form a "first-line defence" against a winter wave of Covid.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Some Tory MPs are concerned that plans for vaccine passports have simply been put on hold rather than scrapped altogether, given that Sajid Javid says ministers will "keep them in reserve as a potential option".
Pfizer initially turned down an offer to develop a Covid vaccine because executives believed the virus could be “controlled” and that mRNA technology was too experimental.
Ministers may be scrapping plans to introduce vaccine passports this month but they seem determined to push on with the vaccination of 12-15 year-olds, with reports suggesting the roll-out could begin on September 22nd.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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