Matt Hancock, British Minister of Health, said the UK plans to offer immunity passports to those recovered from "Covid 19", to return to their normal lives.
"We are thinking about the possibility of issuing immunity documents to those who have recovered from (Covid 19), and who have antibodies that give them immunity against it, to return to their normal lives," Hancock said at a press conference in Downing Street.
The UK has requested millions of antibody tests, but it has not been effective, and the government has not approved it for use today, according to Business Insider.
The tests that exist today did not achieve convincing results, as Spain repeated tens of thousands of "Covid-19" tests, which were produced by a Chinese company after discovering problems in the results that give them, as some tests did not differentiate between the emerging virus and other corona viruses. Scientists have not yet confirmed the possibility of forming a complete immunity to prevent infection again, nor the expected duration of this immunity.
Germany is also studying the possibility of issuing immunity documents. Today, according to the Guardian, scientists in Germany are preparing a study to estimate the number of people immunized from Covid-19, which could allow some people to return to their work.
The presence of antibodies in the blood indicates the body's success in countering the virus, and that this person was once a carrier of the virus. This test differs from the test currently being done, to find out whether or not the person has the virus. Some believe that governments may take advantage of the results to determine where the herd immunity arises and to ease the embargo imposed on them.
Antibodies indicate the body's success in countering the "virus".
- Spain has repeated thousands of tests produced by a Chinese company.