Boris Johnson suggests public may receive a "COVID passport" to visit venues
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested in today's live broadcast Coronavirus press conference that the UK may "regain a sense of normality" by possibly introducing 20 minute testing to offer the equivalent of a COVID-19 passport.
During the conference, Johnson confirmed that from Monday a “rule of six” will be introduced in England, meaning people should not meet up in groups of more than six.
He says this measure replaces current guidance - "people only need to remember the rule of six". He says that two households cannot meet socially if they make a group bigger than six.
Plans to pilot larger audiences in stadiums and to allow conferences to go ahead from October will be put on hold for review.
Regarding a potential COVID-19 passport, Johnson said: "In the near future we want to start using testing to identify people who are negative, who don’t have coronavirus, who are not infectious, so we can allow them to behave in a more normal way in the knowledge they can’t infect anyone else with the virus.”
This could allow office workers who test negative in the morning being able to work how they did before the pandemic, or allow people to attend venues for entertainment, for example.
