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Hundreds of people are trying to enter the UK every week with faked Covid-19 coronavirus certificates, MPs have been told.
The fake documents claiming a traveller has a recent negative test result are “very easy” to forge.
Covid travel news live: US to warn against trips to most of world, as UK border hit by fake test certificates Kate Ng and Jon Sharman Coronavirus in numbers
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The US is expected to advise against travelling to more than three-quarters of the world’s countries in an expansion of its coronavirus alert level.
The State Department’s level-four “do not travel” alert currently covers 34 nations including Kenya, Russia and Brazil, but officials now say they will extend it to 80 per cent of the globe.
It comes as British MPs are told that hundreds of people are trying to enter the country on fake Covid test documents.
Covid news - live: UK to ‘supercharge’ search for at-home treatments, as EU warns of ‘possible’ J&J clot link Kate Ng,Jon Sharman and Vincent Wood
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The UK government is set to launch a taskforce to “supercharge” the hunt for a new generation of antiviral medicines that can treat people infected with Covid-19 in their own homes.
Modelled after the team responsible for obtaining the nation’s vaccine supplies, the taskforce will search for and support treatments currently in development that can reduce transmission and speed up recovery from Covid-19.
Meanwhile, the European medicines regulator said there is a “possible link” between Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots.
100 people a day trying to enter the UK with fake Covid certificates
The fake documents claiming a traveller has a recent negative test result are “very easy” to forge, MPs were told
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Around 100 people are trying to enter the country each day with a “fake Covid certificate”, MPs have heard.