ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday slammed the United Kingdom for accepting only “white” Covid-19 vaccines and certificates for approving foreign travellers entering the country, questioning “a colonial mindset” shown in the policy.
Britain “decides gora (white) certificates and vaccines are ok but most non-gora (non-white) vaccine certificates and Chinese vaccines are not,” Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said on Twitter.
UK decides gora certificates & vaccines are ok but most non gora vaccine certificates & chinese vaccines are not. This despite widespread evidence of fake certificates in US & Europe. Chinese vaccines are WHO approved. Health considerations or hangover of a colonial mindset? pic.twitter.com/j2TQTY8gVn
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) October 7, 2021
He added that despite widespread evidence of fake certificates in the United States and Europe, Britain is sticking to the policy.
“Chinese vaccines are WHO approved,” he said, asking whether the British government upholds the policy out of “health considerations or hangover of a colonial mindset.”
Umar’s tweet came a day after the British government said that due to it only approves European and US Covid-19 vaccines, it is working with authorities to recognise the vaccine certificates issued by the National Database and Registration Authority.
The British government recently removed Pakistan from its red list after a decline in new cases in the country, but put it on the “rest of the world” list, according to the fact that vaccinated Pakistan nationals travelling to the country have to undergo the same mandatory Covid-19 prevention measures like the unvaccinated people, as the vaccines they took or the vaccination certificates they hold are not recognised by Britain.
