Britain decided to add India’s Covaxin and China’s Sinovac and Sinopharm to the list of Covid vaccines approved for inbound travellers. This decision came a few days after WHO gave its nod to Covaxin.
Earlier Covishield was recognised by UK for inbound travellers from 4th October. In a statement issued on Monday, UK government said that “From 4am on Monday, November 22, the government will recognize vaccines on the World Health Organisation’s Emergency –Use Listing (WHO EUL). As a result, Sinovac , Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin will be added to our list of approved vaccines for inbound travel , benefitting more fully vaccinated people from countries such as UAE, Malaysia and India”.
Now the passengers would need to pay for a lateral flow tests to take before the end of their second day, post arrival.
The fully vaccinated passengers would be exempted from
Self isolation requirements on arrival,
Eighth day
Pre-departure testing
They would need to take only post arrival test and confirmatory PCR test if they test positive
