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I’ll bet I’m not the only person to have been scrolling jubilantly through flight comparison websites this week. Yet despite the partial lifting of the UK’s travel restrictions, spontaneous sojourns abroad still feel some way off. There’s the new traffic light system to contend with – currently listing a meagre 12 countries as ‘green’ or ‘low-risk’ – and for young, unvaccinated folk like me, there’s the chilling prospect of quarantine upon arrival in certain countries.
That’s less likely to be the case for those who’ve been given a sore arm in recent weeks. The introduction of a vaccine passport on the NHS app – not the NHS COVID-19 app you’ve been using to check in to pubs – should mean those with the requisite antibodies can sail through border control and onto the beach without breaking stride. But experts have already uncovered privacy issues with the new vaccine passport, including what appears to be a capacity to collect a huge amount of sensitive personal data.
Elsewhere, health experts recommend doing more than just 30 minutes of exercise if you really want to counter the ill effects of sitting, and apparently Phil Collins is cool again – demonstrating a
pattern for how pop stars in decline can be reconsecrated by a new generation of music fans.
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