- People will need three jabs to use controversial Covid vaccine passports for entry to large venues
- Health Secretary Sajid Javid said 'fully-vaccinated' status will change after 'reasonable chance' to get jabs
- Under the new regulations, people could be fined £10,000 if they try to falsify a Covid pass or test result
- Mr Javid's statement comes amid murmurings of a Tory rebellion to the so-called 'Plan B' restrictions
- Tories are opposed to making NHS Covid passes mandatory for entry to large venues such as nightclubs
People may need three jabs to use controversial Covid passports for entry to large venues by January, the Health Secretary warned last night.
Sajid Javid told the Commons that people will only be considered 'fully vaccinated' once they have had their booster, and that three doses will be required for vaccine passports once all eligible adults in England have had 'a reasonable chance' to get the next jab.
But he refused to clarify when these changes would come into force, as confusion mounts over whether the Prime Minister's promise in Sunday's TV address means everybody will have had their booster by December 31 or will just be offered a third dose by then.
In a massively ambitious move, Boris Johnson brought forward the deadline to offer all over-18s a third jab by New Year's Day as he warned the country: 'There is a tidal wave of Omicron coming.'
But concerns about whether the Government could even hit the goal were raised almost immediately after Mr Johnson's 8pm televised announcement last night. Even at the height of the NHS's vaccine drive in March, the health service never managed more than 850,000 jabs a day.
Britons faced a five-hour queue for booster shots at St Thomas' hospital in Westminster on Monday, after officials reportedly assigned only four staff members to rolling out the jabs. The hospital said everyone in the queue would get a vaccine.
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