Vaccination won't replace quarantine for overseas arrivals
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly is currently speaking, and has touched on a topic I'm sure many people are hanging out for updates on - travel.
When asked about the prospect of a kind of vaccine pass, which would allow vaccinated travellers to skip quarantine on arrival, he said this:
"On the vaccine passport or immunity passport idea, that is certainly something we are looking at very, very carefully and closely. For the time being - and we will be shortly reiterating that on our Smartraveller website - I've been discussing with my colleagues in the Department of Foreign Affairs about the wording of that this morning, and there is no change.
"If people have been vaccinated or not, they will be having 14 days quarantine for the time being. A vaccine has been rolled out in a number of countries - I think tomorrow will be the first person in the UK will be getting their second dose of vaccine, and we know that the Pfizer vaccine, even though it is very effective, that maximum effectiveness doesn't kick in until a week after the second vaccine, which is essentially a month after the first vaccine.
"So we have some time to consider these matters, but for the moment, vaccination will not be an alternative to 14-day quarantine, and those decisions also have to be thought through carefully over the coming months as to how that will be handled."
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