Brits set to use vaccine passports to go on holiday in future, Boris Johnson suggests

BRITS are set to be told they will need a vaccine passport to go on holiday in the future, Boris Johnson suggested today.

The PM is due to update the nation on vaccine passports and international travel on Monday.

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Boris said there was ‘definitely’ a world in which international travel will use vaccine passports[/caption]

Speaking at a B&Q in Middlesbrough, Mr Johnson said: “There’s definitely going to be a world in which international travel will use vaccine passports.

“You can see already that other countries, the aviation industry, are interested in this and there’s a logic to that.”

Countries around are setting up plans to ask people to prove their vaccination status before they are allowed in.

But Britain hasn’t yet confirmed it will definitely be using them.

Michael Gove is conducting a review into the idea at the moment, and the PM has said he will give an update on Monday.

However, Mr Johnson has also suggested they could be used for pubs and restaurants in the UK too, and the review may allow individual businesses to set their own rules.

Ministers have stressed that they cannot rely on vaccine passports alone, and have indicated if they do allow pubs to demand them, they must also give the option for anti-body tests or Covid tests too.

The PM said this morning: “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.”