![]() The Department for Transport said today's changes include a 'range of contingency measures' in reserve so ministers could take 'swift and proportionate action'. Mr Javid insisted the group had been 'clear', adding: 'Their most recent advice is they think towards the end of this year, maybe in the autumn, there will be a need to give a lot more people a boost, an offer of a boost. He claimed the Government would follow the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), a panel of influential scientists that have guided No10 through their historic inoculation campaigns. When asked if the booster drive would be widened to the general population, Mr Javid said: 'I think at some point they will.' However, he admitted there may be a 'need to give a lot more people a boost'.Įxperts have speculated another inoculation drive this year could be expanded to include over-50s, effectively covering the same groups who will be offered a free flu vaccine on the NHS. Grilled about the topic on ITV's Peston programme, he did not specify exactly who would be invited in any roll-out this autumn. Alternatively, a basic training certificate or declaration from the registered owners that the individual is employed as a seafarer will be accepted.įind the Passenger Locator online form here.Britain's Covid booster vaccine programme is gearing up for another round of inoculations this autumn, the Health Secretary has revealed.įourth jabs will be dished out to all over-75s, care home residents and patients with weak immune systems from next week.īut Sajid Javid hinted last night millions more may be eligible for top-up doses later this year, ahead of the country's third Covid winter. ![]() This can be in the form of a Seafarers Identity Document, joining papers, seafarers' employment agreement or a seafarers' discharge book. Seafarers are exempt from the requirement to quarantine for 14 days providing they can produce evidence of being employed as a seafarer. In March Nautilus successfully lobbied the government to designate seafarers as key workers. Nautilus is lobbying the government to exempt seafarers from the passenger locator form requirement. The form cannot be submitted until 48 hours before the seafarer's arrival time in the UK.Ī ferry worker who is on board for an extended period of time need not complete it on each occasion when the ferry is to dock in the UK. However, when they leave the ferry to return home, they will be required under current rules to complete it. It is permitted to complete the form on behalf of another person, but an explanation must be given why this is being done using a maximum of 500 characters. The form must be completed whenever a seafarer enters the UK and passes through a Border Force checkpoint. The online form asks for details of the individual's journey to the UK, how they can be contacted and where they will be staying whilst in the UK. Seafarers are required to file the form despite being designated as Key Workers and exempted from the Government's 14-day quarantine programme.įailure to complete the form could result in a £100 fine. The online-only form is part of the Government's new mandatory 14-day quarantine programme for all arriving passengers. ![]() All new arrivals to the UK have been required to fill out a mandatory ' passenger locator' form from 8 June 2020 including seafarers returning home or on shore leave.
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