UK Covid passports – who's for and who's against?
Apr 06, 2021
4 minutes
One of the most significant political controversies of the coronavirus period is likely to be over the idea of Covid “passports” – app-based, biometric certificates that would allow people entry to potentially crowded spaces. While they are sometimes referred to as “vaccine passports”, these would not just show vaccination status. Other ways people could prove they were safe to mingle would be a sufficiently recent test showing significant Covid antibodies, or a very recent negative test for the virus.
These are distinct from the idea of a proof of vaccination to be allowed to enter overseas countries, which is less contentious.
The government is still of Covid certificates for
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