Pakistanis with Chinese vaccines can now travel to UK

ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom (UK) on Tuesday announced to accept passengers from Pakistan who have received doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines.

The announcement was made by the UK’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Christian Turner from his official Twitter handle.

Good news for 🇵🇰 travellers:
🇬🇧 adds Sinonvac, Sinopharm & Covaxin to the fully vaccinated list for inward travel Rules from 22 November @WHO @Officialncoc @fslsltn @Asad_Umar

More details here 👇https://t.co/6MEGmKCubC

— Christian Turner (@CTurnerFCDO) November 9, 2021

Turner in his tweet said that good news for travellers from Pakistan as the UK has added Sinonvac, Sinopharm & Covaxin to the fully vaccinated list for inward travel Rules from 22 November.

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Earlier, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar took a jibe at the United Kingdom for not accepting Chinese vaccines approved by the World Health Organsiation (WHO).

Taking to his official Twitter handle, the minister wrote: ” [The] UK decides gora certificates [and] vaccines are okay but most non-gora vaccine certificates [and] Chinese vaccines are not. This despite widespread evidence of fake certificates in [the] US [and] Europe.”