Vaccine passport: WHO warns against using Covid jab proof for foreign travel
The WHO has warned against using vaccine passports as a way to travel abroad. The health authority said “critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission” still remain. Travellers who have had the Covid vaccine should therefore not be exempt from existing travel restrictions, the experts argued in their latest travel advice.
MP Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is leading a review into issues relating to vaccine passports.
This will report before June 21, when the UK is provisionally set to completely reopen.
The Government is understood to want Britons to have the option of displaying either their vaccination status or test results, ensuring those who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons are not penalised.
Boris Johnson said earlier this week on the subject: “There are deep and complex issues that we need to explore, and ethical issues about what the role is for government in mandating or for people to have such a thing or indeed in banning people doing such a thing.
