NIALL CARSON – PA IMAGES VIA GETTY: Commons foreign affairs committee chair Tom Tugendhat
Anti-vaxxers who reject a safe coronavirus jab may not be allowed back into their physical workplace by their employers, a senior Tory MP has said.
Tom Tugendhat told HuffPost UK he can “certainly see the day” when bosses do not allow people into the office unless they have received a Covid vaccine.
A similar system could work with social venues like pubs and restaurants asking for vaccination certificates before allowing people in.
He compared it to foreign travel, where visitors to certain countries have to show evidence of vaccination against diseases like yellow fever to be allowed into the country.
Tugendhat spoke to HuffPost UK’s Commons People podcast following the news that a vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was found to be 90% effective.
The government is now making plans to roll out the vaccine, alongside potentially others if they are proven safe and effective and approved by regulators.