LONDON, May 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.K. government has announced it will be introducing vaccine passports from May 17, which will be available in a digital format as well as on paper, a move which human rights activists have warned threatens “deeper injustice, division and discrimination.”
The Department of Health and Social Care issued guidance on “[d]emonstrating your COVID-19 vaccination status when travelling abroad.”
Individuals who have had both doses of the experimental vaccines, are to be able to use an updated version of the National Health Service (NHS) app to display their vaccinated status. The change will come into effect on May 17, when the next easing of the current national lockdown, which began in the new year, will mean that Britons can leave the country for tourism without breaking the law.
From May 17 the NHS health app will also act as a ‘Covid passport’ to show your vaccination status for overseas travel says @grantshapps https://t.co/1zBUvv01uj pic.twitter.com/vBDXfWDrR3
— ITV News (@itvnews) May 7, 2021
In order to enable this system to proceed, an update has been made to the NHS smartphone app, which is different from the NHS COVID-19 app currently in use for the COVID
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