The UK Government might trial vaccine passport plans at live sports events and theatres in the next month.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested some form of vaccine certification may be used south of the border as part of the exit from lockdown over the spring and summer.
As reported by MailOnline the scheme may be trialled in England in May, with the Prime Minister set to give it the green-light on Monday. It is hoped it could also aid a return to international travel.
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Johnson said yesterday: “There’s definitely going to be a world in which International travel will see vaccine passports.
“You can see already that other countries, the aviation industry, are interested in this and there’s a logic to that.
“I think when it comes to trying to make sure that we give maximum confidence to businesses and customers in the UK, there are three things - there’s immunity whether you have had it before so you have natural antibodies, whether you have been vaccinated, and of course whether you have had a test.”
Future plans for the scheme in Scotland remain unclear, however First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this week the Scottish Government would consider the use of vaccine passports.
She said: “In general terms, I agree that it should be looked at and I probably don’t have much to say today that goes beyond what I’ve already said on this.
“I think we should consider how we use some kind of vaccine certification to open up more in the future. I think we’ve got to be careful and considered about how we do that.
“There are still some questions that we don’t really know the answers to, like the vaccine’s impact on transmission - though early data on that is all very positive, and there are big ethical and equity questions about vaccine passports and certification.
“There are some people who can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons, for example, so we need to think through all of this.”
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