After covishield uk says it’s cowin whatever happened to commonwealth objectives
The United Kingdom’s inclusion of Covishield in the accepted vaccine list but continued mandating of a 10-day quarantine for fully vaccinated Indians is unfortunate. After facing great flak for its stance on Covishield, which is essentially the same vaccine as the one manufactured by AstraZeneca in UK, it made a climbdown, but evidently a grudging one. It appears to now harbour doubts on India’s vaccination certification system, in this case, CoWin. While each country is allowed to do everything in its powers to safeguard its citizens, doubts over CoWin are unnecessary.It is an Aadhaar authenticated system and even has a QR code which isn’t easily manipulated unlike digital text. Moreover, India’s vaccination is now proceeding rapidly and much of the middle class have got their two jabs. Students proceeding for international travel were prioritised too. India also hasn’t struggled with vaccine hesitancy like Western countries.
The 10-day quarantine makes any kind of short term visit impossible. If countries begin to impose such unreasonable requirements on fully vaccinated people, tourism and business travel are unlikely to pick up pace. The danger is even more pronounced because other countries could start using the UK move as a precedent to impose burdensome quarantine restrictions on fully vaccinated people. Better sense must prevail.
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