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Government health advisor defends testing for fully vaccinated

Government
Gary Noakes
16 December 2021

A key medical advisor to the government has defended the logic of testing travellers who are already vaccinated.

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Dr Jenny Harries, UK Health Security Agency chief executive, was tackled on the issue by the government’s transport committee on Wednesday (15 December).

"In relation to vaccination, this gets very, very complicated," she said. "There is not unreasonably a perception that until Omicron came along, if you are vaccinated, you couldn’t be infectious.