Transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has confirmed an NHS app will change into a Covid-19 passport as soon as journey resumes.
The federal government is presently hoping to reopen worldwide borders to leisure journey from Might 17th, with affirmation anticipated within the coming days.
Officers are planning to launch a ‘visitors mild’ system, with secure nations rated ‘inexperienced’, whereas journey to ‘pink’ nations will probably be prohibited.
Which nations will probably be given which score will probably be revealed “within the subsequent couple of weeks,” Shapps added.
Nevertheless, even travellers to the most secure ‘inexperienced’ nations will nonetheless have to endure a Covid-19 check earlier than their departure, in addition to on their return to the UK.
Shapps confirmed an NHS app will probably be used to permit Britons to display whether or not they have had a Covid-19 jab, or examined destructive for the virus, earlier than travelling overseas.
“It is going to be the NHS app that’s used for individuals once they guide appointments with the NHS and so forth, to have the ability to present you will have had a vaccine or that you’ve got had testing,” he defined this morning.
“I’m working internationally with companions internationally to guarantee that system will be internationally recognised.”
Nevertheless, the app is not going to be the NHS Covid-19 app – presently used to verify in to venues akin to pubs and eating places for contact-tracing functions.
It is going to as a substitute be the NHS app used to guide basic appointments.
