Tag: Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid has urged those eligible for the booster jab to come forward and do their part to avoid a winter lockdown.

From tomorrow, more than 800 schools will be visited by health teams to vaccinate 12 to 15 year-olds.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid is believed to be keen to introduce legislation forcing all NHS workers to be vaccinated against Covid "as soon as possible", despite fears of staff shortages.

Sajid Javid gave the Downing Street press briefing today – the first one in five weeks. The headline news is that the Government isn't implementing 'Plan B', although Javid did add the ominous words "at this point".

All frontline NHS staff could be forced to get vaccinated against Covid (or be forced out of their jobs) under plans being drawn up by Sajid Javid – with the backing of Boris Johnson.

Sajid Javid says there are currently no good reasons to introduce vaccine passports, but concedes that his comments do not mean "there can’t ever be a role for such an intervention".

Sajid Javid says he is not willing to delay the imposition of mandatory vaccination rules for care home workers and that those who refuse to get 'jabbed' should “get out and get another job”.

The Health Secretary has confirmed that vaccine passports could be introduced for pubs later this year if "something happens", but remains coy about what exactly "something" means.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has attempted to clarify what exactly would trigger the Government to implement its 'Plan B' (including vaccine passports and mask mandates) this winter but was very coy on the specifics.

Vaccine passports could have unintended consequences. If vulnerable people are led to believe – wrongly – that the vaccines have strong efficacy against infection, they might take more risks than they otherwise would.