LONDON: The British government faces a counter-attack on his rejection to recognize visitors as vaccinations unless they receive their shots in certain countries.
In a travel regulation launched last week, full of dosage arrivals from countries such as US, Israel and Australia will be allowed to enter Britain without quarantine starting 4.
October, but people who are vaccinated from a vast world plot, including 10- home insulation periods day.
That size is valid even if visitors have a vaccine that is approved and used in the UK, such as the Pfizer Inc-Bontech SE or shot produced by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
It doesn’t matter whether the country is in the “red list” of those who face additional limits on entries or not.
“The attitude by the British slaps the colonialist mentality that must be condemned in the strongest term,” said Shabir Madhi, a vaccinologist at Johannesburg University of Witwatersrand who led the South African trial of the Astrazeneca vaccine and Novavax Inc.
“If they truly believe that this vaccine is sub-optimal – which is not them – they must provide evidence to support this.” Retalizing the threat of South Africa remains on the English red list to enter.
India, which has supplied a large number of vaccines distributed in the UK, moved from it last month.
Parliamentarians there react with anger that still cannot be visited without isolation.
Harsh Shringla’s foreign secretary said the rules of “discriminatory” and warned that “reciprocity” can be guaranteed.
The UK adjusts its policy on Wednesday to include astrazeneca covishield shots that are widely used in India as an approved vaccine, but Asian countries are still not in the list of acceptable places to receive doses.
As a result, people who receive covishield in the UK are counted as vaccinations, while those who get it in India are not.
“We always say we will take a gradual approach to the launch of our inbound vaccination program to other countries and regions,” British government spokesman said Wednesday.
“We will review policies and consider additional every three weeks.” The UK approach contrasts with the US, which says on Tuesday which is fully vaccinated by foreigners will be accepted since the beginning of November, as long as they have a full course of one of the drugs listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization.
These include various shots, including those from Chinese Developers Sinopharm Group and Sinovac Biotech Ltd.
which is not used in the US.
Kenya is in the same place as India.
Last week, African countries were excluded from the list of English countries from England from where travelers were forced to quantify the hotel at a cost of 2,285 pounds ($ 3.121).
With the elimination of the British traffic light system, now in the same category as places like the US, Australia and Spain.
However, just like India, England did not recognize vaccines given in Kenya.
So the round of PCR testing is extensive and the fixed isolation requirements for anyone who wants to travel.
While England does not determine its concern, has a system to verify the authenticity of vaccination documents can occur between them.
“Building a system to recognize each other’s vaccine certificate for the vaccine passport program for travel takes time,” Jane Marriott, High Commissioner of the UK, and Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe said in a joint statement.