Vaccine Passports and Booster Jabs
The Briefing Room
BBC
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Government ministers have been blowing hot and cold about vaccine passports. Now the Westminster government says it is not planning to introduce them to England, though they're being kept as an option should things change. The Welsh government is thinking about them, while Northern Ireland has rejected them for now. In Scotland vaccine passports are coming in on October 1st for nightclubs and large venues. But booster jabs are coming across the UK. The roll-out for over-50s, frontline health workers and vulnerable groups will begin in days.
Joining David Aaronovitch to ask if we need vaccine passports and boosters are:
Laure Millet, head of the healthcare policy programme at the Institut Montaigne in Paris Melinda Mills, Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Azra Ghani, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London Natasha Loder, Health Policy Editor at The Economist
Producers: John Murphy, Kirsteen Knight, Soila Apparicio Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David O'onovich. |
| 0:11.2 | The briefing room, you and I get together with the top experts on a big issue, |
| 0:15.6 | and inside 28 minutes they alter our consciousness. |
| 0:19.2 | This week, vaccine passports and booster shots. |
| 0:22.8 | Will they work and do we need them? |
| 0:28.2 | In England, one week we're going to have vaccine passports and the next week we aren't. |
| 0:33.8 | And then we might again, who knows? |
| 0:37.3 | Northern Ireland is saying no thanks for now, Wales is thinking about it, |
| 0:41.8 | and Scotland is bringing them in on the 1st of October for nightclubs and large events. |
| 0:46.5 | So what is the point of vaccine passports? |
| 0:51.0 | And what about booster jabs, which for some are on the way? |
| 0:54.8 | How necessary are they likely to be and who should get them? |
| 0:58.5 | Step into the briefing room and we'll find out. |
| 1:04.4 | With COVID, no island is an island. |
| 1:07.6 | And some countries have already introduced vaccine passports, or at least a version of |
| 1:12.0 | them. In France, they have something called the Pass Sanitaire or Health Pass. Why did they |
| 1:17.6 | introduce it? What is it? And is it succeeding? Lormier is head of the healthcare policy programme |
| 1:23.8 | at the independent think tank, the Institute Montaigne, in Paris. |
| 1:32.4 | Lor Mier, can you tell us what the past sanitaire is and how it works? |
| 1:38.6 | So the past sanitary is, in a sense, a proof of either a vaccination certificate showing that you are fully vaccinated with a recognised vaccine or a proof proof of a negative PCR or lateral flow test |
| 1:46.6 | taken within the last 72 hours, or a document that is at least, I think, 11 days old |
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