COVID-19: UK will work to ensure travel to Europe after fears three batches of vaccine won't be accepted by EU

Downing Street says it will work to ensure 'safe and open travel' following concerns that millions of people could miss out on trips to Europe this summer because their COVID jabs aren't recognised. It has been reported that up to five million Britons will not qualify for the EU's vaccine passport scheme because the AstraZeneca shots they received were manufactured in India. These doses are not recognised by the EU's drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and so effectively bars those who have received India-made vaccines from using their vaccinated status to travel to the bloc.