Scientist says people in England who have had two jabs and come into contact with someone infected may soon be spared 10 days of self-isolating
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Asked if double-vaccinated people would take other variants from abroad to the UK, Prof Bauld told Times Radio:
I think the chances of that are not zero, but they’re greatly reduced.
What we see from some well-conducted studies, including one in Scotland here where they looked at people who had both doses of the vaccine, they were healthcare workers, and then did they infect other people in their household? That was greatly reduced amongst those with both doses of the vaccine.
Prof Bauld said countries need to reach agreement on rules about vaccinated people being allowed entry. She told Times Radio that having both doses of the vaccine is “not a free pass to everything”.
But we have to make these changes because in order to get back to some kind of normal life – or more normal than we have now – vaccines are going to be that protection.
And that means that showing, particularly for international travel, evidence of a vaccine. And I think that you know that’s uncontroversial compared to, remember, those discussions about vaccine passports to go to the pub, which are just not a runner. But, for travel, I think all countries need to reach agreement on this.
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