London: The United Kingdom ministers have not made it mandatory for students to get fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 to attend college and university lectures.
The UK foreign secretary had earlier said that students would get “advance warning” in case they need to be fully inoculated, reported BBC.
According to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, a decision on whether the vaccination would be compulsory for students returning to halls of residence would be made in September.
“We will certainly make sure university students have advance warning, of course we’re going to be mindful of this,” Raab was quoted as saying by BBC Radio 4’s Today on Thursday.
However, for the time being, the idea of requiring students in England to produce evidence of vaccination to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence has been put on hold, the BBC informed.
The UK government, meanwhile, is contemplating making it mandatory to take two jabs of COVID vaccines for those going to nightclubs and other crowded venues from September.
Over 72 per cent of UK adults have already taken both doses of vaccines, while 88.5 per cent have received one dose.
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