Calls for 'unified guidance' across the UK on vaccine passports
Booster jabs are being added to vaccine passports in Scotland for large events
A supply chain expert in Bradford is calling on the UK to have 'unified guidance' on the vaccine passport, as Scotland are set to add the booster jab for large events.
What are the rules in England?
In England you need a vaccine passport to enter:
- Nightclubs
- Indoor unseated venues with more than 500 people
- Outdoor unseated venues with more than 4,000 people
- Any venues with more than 10,000 people
What you need to show to enter:
- An NHS covid pass which shows you've had 2 doses of the vaccine
- A negative PCR or lateral flow test, taken within the last 48 hours
- Proof of a medical exemption or that you are taking part in a clinical trial
Liz Breen, a supply chain expert at the University of Bradford said:
"If you travel from England, through Scotland, into Northern Ireland, automatically you can see 3 different practices in place. Each one slightly difference based on their local government views on how they should practice and how they want to reduce transmission rates."
Ms Breen is originally from Northern Ireland and visited home at Christmas, she said:
"Automatically I was asked to show my passport to go into a restaurant for lunch, I was asked to show it for entry into a cinema, we don't have to do that here in England, so I was a bit out of practice with regards to preparing, finding and showing my passport."
She says 'unified guidance' is needed across the UK:
"The way forward would be some unity in direction of travel, where there's consensus on what is actually needed from a clinical point of view to reduce transmission rates- should we all have the booster recorded on our passports or not? Or is it the case that 2 is enough?
"If 2 is what is warranted, when the argument could be why the push for the 3rd dose? But the booster dose is there for a reason, so I think we just need some unified guidance."