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Iata’s Simon McNamara says: ‘Iata has developed a tool, Travel Pass (pictured), which can display test results and vaccination certificates, [but] we need governments to issue certificates’


Ministers ‘await science’ for certification decision


Government wants to know vaccine’s impact on Covid spread. Ian Taylor reports Labour MP Ben Bradshaw argued


The government has yet to decide how to provide proof of Covid vaccination for travellers, meaning there will be no release from test requirements under the traffic light system for anyone travelling from May 17 who has had two vaccine doses. Health secretary Matt Hancock


told MPs on Monday: “We need to have a way of showing [vaccination]. We’ve not yet come to any conclusions about how we should do that.” Covid-status certification is


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Office minister Michael Gove. Aviation minister Robert Courts


explained the delay on developing certification for travel when he appeared before the Transport Select Committee of MPs last week, saying: “We don’t yet understand everything about the way vaccines work. The science has to catch up. “We need to understand the


transmission of variants of concern. What effect does vaccination have on transmissibility? We also have to factor in countries which aren’t as well advanced with vaccination.”


studies suggest vaccination is effective against variants. But Courts replied: “A number of studies suggest a number of things. We’ll consider these points at the reviews.” The government’s Global Travel


Taskforce scheduled three reviews – by June 28, July 30 and October 1. Courts explained: “The Cabinet


Office is running the overall vaccination accreditation. We feed


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