More clarity emerging on pub Covid passports now.... 1/
The Government is interested in letting some businesses check you are ‘Covid safe’ before entering.
Covid safe could mean
A) You’ve had a jab
B) You’ve had a negative test
C) You’ve got antibodies
2/
There is a division of thinking inside Gov into 2 groups
1) Large events. Wembley, festivals etc. Ticketed events which have big crowds. Enthusiasm for Covid safe checks here
2) Smaller gatherings where people can walk in+out like pubs. Some hesitancy on Covid safe checks. 3/
Government sources are stressing letting pubs etc do Covid safe checks on the way in is linked to social distancing rules.
So (‘bad news’) they would check Covid status but (‘good news’) they could open up fully inside. (All this is v much ideas being considered). 4/
So would pubs support this? One beer association chief argues no. She told me that scheme would in effect mean checking Covid status would not be voluntary. 5/
All details remain TBC. We’ll get our first proper indication next month when Gove’s review into Covid certificates reports back with an update. 6/6
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Care home workers will be required by law to get the Covid jab under historic legal change agreed by PM and Health Sec.
I’ve been leaked details of a Covid-O cabinet committee paper. Last time new UK law mandated jabs was the 1800s. Thread.1/ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
The paper was written by the Health Dep and discussed in Covid-O last week. Details shared with me by numerous sources.
It’s around 15 pages long and titled: ‘Vaccination as a condition of deployment in adult social care and health setting’. 2/
This is understood to be the paper’s key line. Makes clear Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock “have agreed” to change the law so social care workers are required to get Covid vaccines. 3/
Telegraph understands the following proposals are coming from the Home Office...
1) A ‘one stop shop’ for people appealing deportation. Means all claims must be made at one point rather than one after the other. Would quicken legal process.
2) Reforms to the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Specifically tightening the definition of modern slavery.
Home Office believes it is being used too often by people who legitimately should be deported.
(Others - including perhaps @theresa_may who championed the law - may disagree)
Children's minister Vicky Ford said if kids get lateral flow test positive, then PCR negative, they CAN’T go back to school
That is wrong, No 10 makes clear. Lateral flow test positive then PCR negative means kids CAN go back to school
Clarity is emerging from the muddle, via an education source.
1) IN SCHOOL
If a pupil gets a lateral flow positive at school... they are advised not to get a PCR test... and even if they do get a PCR test which is negative they must stay at home.
But...
2) AT HOME
If a pupil gets a lateral flow positive at home... they are advised to get a PCR test... and if that PCR test is negative they can go back to school.
Why the difference? Gov argues lateral tests done in school are more trustworthy as those giving them are trained.