LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson on Friday said he saw no reason why people who received
Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines should be left
out of vaccine passport schemes after the European Union did not
initially recognise it.
About 5 million people in Britain are thought to have had
the vaccine made by Serum Institute in India, known as
Covishield.
"I see no reason at all why the MHRA-approved vaccines
should not be recognised as part of the vaccine passports and
I'm very confident that that will not prove to be a problem,"
Johnson said at a joint news conference with Angela Merkel,
referring to Britain's medicines regulator.
(Reporting by William James and William Schomberg, writing by
Alistair Smout)