The new travel rules: From insurance to pet passports – the Holiday Guru has your post-Brexit primer

The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week, he offers advice on how to prepare to travel in Europe from January 1. Q. In January my wife and I hope to be in Barcelona to see the works of the architect Antoni Gaudi. What are the Covid rules? Do you … Read more

LAURA PERRINS: ‘Jab passports’ would fuel anti-vaxx madness

Amid the wintery gloom, a series of new vaccines have been justifiably hailed as the breakthrough against coronavirus. With Britain having ordered 357 million doses of seven different vaccines, at last there is real hope that the depressing cycle of lockdown and contagion could be broken next year. Yet, as the Mail reported yesterday, into … Read more

LAURA PERRINS: ‘Jab passports’ would fuel anti-vaxx madness

Amid the wintery gloom, a series of new vaccines have been justifiably hailed as the breakthrough against coronavirus. With Britain having ordered 357 million doses of seven different vaccines, at last there is real hope that the depressing cycle of lockdown and contagion could be broken next year. Yet, as the Mail reported yesterday, into … Read more

Test and Trace is ‘working on making immunity passports’

Britons who have been vaccinated against Covid could get an ‘immunity passport’ on the NHS app, the boss of Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding told NHS bosses that her team was looking at updating the contact tracing app to also display vaccination status. Immunity passports have been touted as a way to … Read more

Are corona passports really the magic bullet Ministers hope they’ll be?

Normality was – frustratingly – within reach.  For months, infection rates fell and the pandemic seemed to be behind us.  But just weeks after millions of children returned to classrooms, and offices around the country began to fill up again, we’re now slipping backwards. Corona cases are said to be doubling every week, hospital admissions … Read more

Are corona passports really the magic bullet Ministers hope they’ll be?

Normality was – frustratingly – within reach.  For months, infection rates fell and the pandemic seemed to be behind us.  But just weeks after millions of children returned to classrooms, and offices around the country began to fill up again, we’re now slipping backwards. Corona cases are said to be doubling every week, hospital admissions … Read more

Coronavirus immunity could only last six months – casting fresh doubt on ‘immunity passports’

Immunity to coronavirus could only last six months, study finds – casting fresh doubt on ministers’ plans to give survivors ‘immunity passports’ Researchers tested 10 men for four coronaviruses regularly for 35 years Found that they were regularly reinfected after 12 months and antibodies were substantially reduced after six Matt Hancock said ministers are looking … Read more