UK Rejects Jamaican Vaccine Status | News | CVMTV

regional director for the southern regional health authority errol green was traveling to the united kingdom through the u.s as a fully vaccinated jamaican local to attend his mother's funeral however upon presenting the required documents to prove his status he was told by virgin airline officials that the uk does not recognize any vaccines administered in jamaica the professor told me that they do not recognize vaccine doctor of the outside of the united states unless it's approved by the cdc green who is vaccinated with the uk created astrazeneca vaccine had to then register as unvaccinated this is because jamaica is not on the list of countries where vaccination programs are recognized by the uk government this means green had to observe the 10-day quarantine required by the uk while also doing additional covet tests minister senator kamina johnson smith of the ministry of foreign affairs subsequently confirmed the non-recognition by the uk in a release minister johnson smith said that the issues of the treatment of vaccination programs was brought to the attention of caricom and the uk government for action acting british high commissioner to jamaica daniel shepard sought to provide assurances that jamaica is not being singled out our list will expand next month on 4th of october by another 17 countries and territories including some caribbean countries we're working to include as many other countries as possible as soon after that as possible and we are working together with the jamaican government to try to include jamaica on a rollout soon shepard says the issue does not lie with the vaccines themselves and therefore the issue should not deter people from taking them the acting high commissioner is urging everyone to get the vaccine to help jamaica return to normalcy janelle powell cdm live

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021