Edge's News: United Kingdom New covid rules and restrictions spells SEGREGATION....... π‘π‘π‘π‘
UK Foreign Secretary, Why is Britain discriminating against passengers who receive their Pfizer/AZ/Moderna jabs in Africa, South America, much of Asia, etc?
The most annoying take on this is anti-vaxxers claiming that this says anything about vaccine efficacy … this is literally just the same old racism we’ve come to expect
UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia…
— Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) September 17, 2021
…you are considered “unvaccinated” and must follow “unvaccinated” rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests
Middle East: Passengers who were fully-vaccinated (Pfizer/Moderna/AZ/J&J) *IN* either Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia will be “recognised” by England as fully-vaccinated travellers, and therefore have no quarantine effective Oct 4.
Passengers who were fully-vaccinated with the same vaccines but *IN* the UAE, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq and elsewhere across the region are not currently “recognised” and passengers are categorised as “unvaccinated” by UK government = quarantine
I fear for the impact of the new UK travel policy. New UK travel policy regarding Covid-19 vaccination could reinforce existing fears of many in Africa that the vaccines offered (by the UK) in African countries cannot be trusted. Concerning!
It’s concerning that UK’s policy of treating anyone who is vaccinated anywhere on the continent of Africa as “unvaccinated” is now adding to vaccine hesitancy/doubts in vaccines donated by Britain in the first place UK government should come forward and explain the policy ASAP, It’s especially unusual given many of these vaccines were donated by UK, EU & US through COVAX?
While this hasn’t been given much (if any) media attention in UK given the distraction of “Amber list gone” (it hasn’t) or “travel policy simplified” (not true) — this has not gone by unnoticed in multiple nationsExpecting an African nation President to address this tomorrow
One senior aviation official in Rwanda joins others in telling me they expect UK government to explain why their passengers, fully vaccinated with Pfizer/AZ/etc, are categorised by UK as “unvaccinated” and so face quarantine…purely because they received their shots in Africa.
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