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Matt Hancock has said that an internationally agreed approach to coronavirus vaccine certification remains “some way off”.
Speaking ahead of a G7 health ministers’ meeting, the health secretary told reporters:
Ultimately there are a number of countries around the world that have said they’re definitely going to have a requirement to be vaccinated in order to travel.
We’re making sure that here any Brit can see their vaccine status.
Health secretary Matt Hancock has said it remains “too early” to say whether all coronavirus restrictions can end on June 21.
Speaking ahead of a G7 health ministers’ meeting, he told reporters:
It’s too early to say what the decision will be about step four of the road map, which is scheduled to be no earlier than June 21.
Of course I look at those data every day, we publish them every day, the case numbers matter but what really matters is how that translates into the number of people going to hospital, the number of people sadly dying.