Tag: vaccine

Covid Passports for Sale

As the world has opened up in the wake of the media-driven highly profitable Covid pandemic, those wanting to travel by air have increasingly been asked to provide proof of full vaccination, a recent negative Covid test or evidence of recovery from the virus. The EU has set up a member-state scheme to allow those with such documentation to move more freely; in certain countries, full vaccination removes the requirement to quarantine on arrival and/or returning home.

MPs Join Last-Ditch Fight to Stop Illegal Covid Passports

Tory MPs say they’ll defy Boris Johnson and vote against illiberal vaccine passports. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hasn’t just angered large swathes of the British public with his planned vaccine passports: he’s also angered his own MPs and legislators on the other side of the House, many of whom have now pledged to vote against such a measure.

Shed Loads of Migrants sit Hunger Strike Out

Members of the Belgian government, two UN rapporteurs, and several associations have expressed concern about the fate of 450 migrants in Belgium who have been on hunger strike since the end of May. In recent days, some of them have stopped taking fluids. Some are reportedly so exhausted that they are in imminent danger of death.