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South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced plans to introduce Covid-19 vaccine passports" amid widespread scepticism of the jab.
In a televised announcement on Sunday, Ramaphosa stressed that an immunised adult population was key to fully reopening the economy and avoiding a fourth infection wave, ahead of an easing of restrictions this week, AFP reports.
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Conservative MPs fear vaccine passports could still be made mandatory later this year amid a warning the NHS faces the worst winter in living memory", despite the health secretary's announcement earlier today that they are to be scrapped.
The dramatic U-turn came just weeks after Boris Johnson announced the controversial documents would be necessary for fully vaccinated people to go to nightclubs and other crowded venues.
They shouldn't be kept in reserve - they are pointless, damaging and discriminatory.
The very concept of vaccine passports needs to be ruled out for good, as they are fundamentally unconservative, discriminatory and would lead to a two-tier society that I am confident no one actually wants to see.
I don't believe that, sadly it's probably politics.
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