(ANSA) - LONDON, 08 SEPT - The compulsory certification of the anti-Covid vaccine - or Green Pass, as it has been renamed in Italy - will be introduced in a limited form in the United Kingdom in the coming weeks, but it will not have to be shown for access to essential services: from basic necessities (supermarkets, pharmacies, groceries, etc.) to local public transport. Nadhim Zahawi, deputy minister responsible for the vaccination campaign in Boris Johnson's Tory government, underlined this today in the House of Commons, answering questions from the defendants after the prime minister's traditional Question Time (challenged in the circumstance by the leader of the Labor opposition Keir Starmer on the issue of reform of the social assistance and health that the executive is preparing to finance with a tax increase).
Zahawi did not indicate an exact date for the entry into force of the British Green Pass, scheduled for late September.
While he gave reassurances to the opposition - Labor and Scottish Independents in the lead - who asked for guarantees on the exemption of any obligation precisely for essential services. In the meantime, the certification, in the overseas version, should in fact be imposed only to be able to access nightclubs, collective events such as concerts, shows or sports competitions and little else. (HANDLE).