Tag: Vaccine Passports

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".

According to today's Sunday Times, the Prime Minister will announce this week that he's scrapping plans to bring in vaccine passports at the end of the month. Sajid Javid more or less confirmed this on Sky News this am.

Ministers are said to be having second thoughts about vaccine passports, especially following firm criticism of their plans from Tory MPs. Perhaps the rhetoric was always empty, intended only to increase vaccine uptake.

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has insisted to MPs in the Commons that vaccine passports are necessary to end the pandemic. Israel and India tell a different story.

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has today insisted that vaccine passports will not be imposed on "essential services", but has refused to rule out their introduction at pubs and restaurants.

Ministers are planning on making overseas travel less complicated next month by scrapping the 'traffic light' system. But less complicated does not mean fairer, as a new system could be based on Covid vaccination.

In this week's London Calling, James and I rage against vaccine passports, immunising kids, and the absurdity of the Govt's claim that it is 'following the Science'. Every time you think they've reached rock bottom...

A third of under-40s in England have not received a single dose of a Covid vaccine, according to the latest figures, despite the threat of the introduction of vaccine passports later this month.

Nadhim Zahawi – who said the Government had no plans to introduce vaccine passports in January – confirmed this morning that plans to introduce a vaccine status certification scheme for large venues would go ahead.

The definition of 'large venue' continues to widen under the Government's plans to introduce vaccine passports, with unvaccinated Brits set to be barred from football matches, concerts and business conferences.