Covid live: UK records 44,932 new cases and 145 deaths; US set to partly lift travel restrictions
by Tom Ambrose (now); Martin Belam and Samantha Lock from on (#5QQXX)
UK figures fall slightly compared to previous day; White House set to lift travel restrictions for some fully vaccinated foreign nationals
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Senior government science advisers from the UK, Europe and Canada have called on countries around the world to offer vaccination certificates to volunteers on Covid jab trials so they can travel internationally.
The UK has led the way in granting vaccine certificates to trial participants, but many countries have failed to follow suit and refuse to admit people unless they have had two doses of Covid vaccine that has already gone through trials and been approved by regulators.
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