Malfunctioning NHS app for Covid vaccine status causes travel delays

Problems accessing Covid pass cause travellers to be turned away from flight and ferry

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Travellers have been blocked from boarding flights and ferries for trips abroad after a four-hour outage of England's NHS app left people unable to access a Covid pass to prove their vaccine status.

Hundreds tried to download information that many countries require before departure - including a QR code and details about the jabs they have had - but were told to try again later", sparking chaos and fury.