The British government is considering introducing a vaccine passport, but a cross-party coalition of more than 70 MPs is opposed to it because they fear it will divide and discriminate in society, leaving people without freedom after the outbreak is brought under control.
According to the Central News Agency, the British government allowed people to interact outdoors on March 29 and will allow places like retail stores, hair salons, gyms, outdoor dining venues, libraries, museums, zoos and theme parks to resume operations on April 12 as the outbreak of the Chinese communist virus (also known as the new coronavirus, COVID-19) in the UK improves.
However, in order to stop the resurgence of the epidemic, the British government is preparing to introduce a vaccination passport that would allow people who can provide proof of vaccination or who have recently tested negative for the virus to go to bars or restaurants, but this proposal has been opposed by more than 70 members of Parliament. The British government has not yet made a final decision on this.
England is set to pilot the vaccination passport in the coming weeks and implement it at upcoming sporting events, but more than 70 MPs, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, have opposed it.
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said the outbreak was now being brought under control because of the government’s successful vaccine programme, and that people should therefore be free again, rather than being subject to a vaccine passport.
Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, said that the government’s lifting of the city closure order was expected to revive the British economy, but if the vaccine passport was introduced, it would restrict the lives of British people forever.
Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), also said the vaccine passport could wreak havoc on the restaurant industry, which is hoping to regain its footing. He said: “We are finding it very difficult to enforce this policy and so far we have not received any guidance from the government on how to implement this. “
Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, a British privacy group, said that if the government implements “vaccine passports,” it could result in British people being asked to show their ID in bars and restaurants, saying. “This is creating a divisive, discriminatory and unjust society, and we cannot allow that to happen.”
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