Coronavirus vaccination will be required to travel “for ever more” and young people will not be able to leave the country without it, the transport secretary warned today.
Grant Shapps said most or all countries would permanently require travellers to have been double-jabbed for the virus before letting them in.
It comes after ministers announced last night that vaccinated travellers to France, Dubai and India will no longer be required to quarantine on their return to the UK in a boost for summer holidays abroad.
Shapps told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I think double vaccination, full vaccination, is going to be a feature for ever more and most countries, probably all countries, will require full vaccination in order for you to enter.”
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