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COVID-19: PM promises ‘vaccine passports’ review as holiday-starved Britons flock to book a break after lockdown exit plans revealed

COVID-19: PM promises ‘vaccine passports’ review as holiday-starved Britons flock to book a break after lockdown exit plans revealed

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a review of so-called vaccine passports as eager Britons book holidays, excited by Monday’s roadmap out of lockdown.

Mr Johnson said: “There are deep and complex issues that we need to explore, ethical issues about what the role is for government in mandating all people to have something or indeed banning people from doing such a thing.”

He said senior minister Michael Gove would lead a review into the issue, although he added that some form of vaccine passport is “going to come on the international stage whatever” for foreign travel, as some other countries would insist on it.

“We need to thrash all this out, and we’ve got time,” he added.

It has been suggested that vaccine certificates or passports could be a way of opening up travel as the roadmap, which sets a path out of England’s coronavirus lockdown, says foreign holidays could be allowed as early as 17 May. Currently non-essential travel is banned.

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