Britons will find out which countries they will be able to enjoy quarantine-free travel to this summer 'in the next couple of weeks' - as the transport secretary confirmed an NHS app will be used as a COVID19 passport for travel abroad
"It will be the NHS app that is used for people when they book appointments with the NHS and so on, to be able to show you've had a vaccine or that you've had testing," he added.
Government sources clarified the app would not be the NHS COVID app - currently used to"check in" to venues such as pubs and restaurants for contact-tracing purposes - but would instead be the NHS app used to book general appointments.Britons will find out 'in the next couple of weeks' which destinations will be quarantine-free
He also warned there was a need to be"very cautious" about allowing Britons to freely travel abroad again. "So we do need to make sure we do this very, very carefully - we don't want to throw away the lockdown, we don't want to throw away our remarkable rollout in this country of the vaccination.
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