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British PM Boris Johnson says Covishield shot should be accepted in vaccine passport schemes

About 5 million people in Britain are thought to have had the vaccine made by Serum Institute in India, known as Covishield.

British PM Boris Johnson says Covishield shot should be accepted in vaccine passport schemes Photo courtesy: PTI

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday (July 2) said he saw no reason why people who received Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines should be left out of vaccine passport schemes after the European Union did not initially recognise it.

About 5 million people in Britain are thought to have had the vaccine made by Serum Institute in India, known as Covishield.

"I see no reason at all why the MHRA-approved vaccines should not be recognised as part of the vaccine passports and I`m very confident that that will not prove to be a problem," Johnson said at a joint news conference with Angela Merkel, referring to Britain`s medicines regulator.

India saw a single-day rise of 46,617 new coronavirus infections, taking the tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,04,58,251, while the national recovery rate has crossed 97 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,00,312 with 853 daily fatalities. 

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