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Euro 2020 and Wimbledon Matches Used as Pilot Events for New “NHS Covid Pass”

by Michael Curzon
16 June 2021 7:57 AM

A new “NHS Covid Pass”, showing a user’s vaccine status, as well as recent test results, will be piloted at upcoming Euro 2020 and Wimbledon matches and could later be introduced at a range of other sport and entertainment events, despite the Government deciding against making Covid status certificates compulsory for attendance at mass gatherings. The Mail has the story.

The existing NHS App, which already provides details of a person’s vaccinations, has been modified so that there is an option to enter Covid test results.

Those who have not been double-jabbed will be able to do a lateral flow test at home and then log it on the app. Spot checks will be performed on a small number of spectators arriving at grounds to show they are being truthful about their negative result.

A Whitehall source said… “The NHS Covid Pass will help us to safely unlock capacity crowds at the Euros and Wimbledon and hopefully deliver a fantastic summer of sporting success.” …

Wimbledon and Euro 2020 matches will be used as pilot events as ministers consider whether the NHS Covid Pass should be used more widely.

The Government has ruled out making it compulsory for venues to make people share their coronavirus status. Instead, they are concentrating on giving organisers the option of asking fans to use the NHS Covid Pass so big sporting events can go ahead safely.

All courts at Wimbledon will operate at 50% capacity for most of the tournament, which kicks off in less than two weeks.

Both [only!] the women’s singles final on July 10th and the men’s singles final on July 11th are set to be played in front of full capacity crowds.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Covid Status CertificationEurosSportVaccineVaccine PassportsWimbledon
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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

I’ll ‘pass’ if you don’t mind

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
4 years ago

The whole thing is a joke but I’m a bit concerned about the sound of these “spot checks”. Are they going to corner random people at Wimbo and force them into having a PCR test? I go to Wimbledon most years and Presumably you could just make up your LFT result but I’m not going to be getting the NHS app either way! Yet another thing they’ve ruined.

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Dobba
Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

. . . and that’s the kicker – you have to download and install the NHS app. Either way, they’ve got you sucked into the system of normalising the app to give your approval.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

stuff ur apps, stuff ur tests

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

I think you will have to be able to present your bogus self-test result on a piece of paper instead. Same as with the restaurants.
Can of legal worms otherwise.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Then you’re still complying, and that’s the goal.

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

The whole thing can be summed up in 3 simple words. Portugal versus Hungary.

Last night’s euro 2020 match between the two was played in a stadium with a capacity crowd. No social distancing. No masks. Will be VERY interesting to know if a) there was any kind of vaxx pass in operation at the gate for entry to that match and b) whether there will be a covid spike afterwards.

The whole thing is nothing more than virtue signalling and distraction. While the population is shuffling around doing their best to try to comply with all the requirements to try to achieve some kind of ‘normality’ no one is looking at the real issue which is the control, surveillance, creeping “papers please” policy which will apply everywhere.

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Draper233
Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I could be wrong but am pretty sure the commentator said that the crowd were fully vaxxed, so presumably had to prove this for entry.

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prod_squadron
prod_squadron
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

I heard him too.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

So footy crowds will be down long term then…

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Marmalade
Marmalade
4 years ago

“Those who have not been double-jabbed will be able to do a lateral flow test at home and then log it on the app. Spot checks will be performed on a small number of spectators arriving at grounds to show they are being truthful about their negative result.”

LOL! So you pretend to take the test, report it as negative, go to the event and you probably won’t be picked for a spot check.

Even if you are, the spot check will likely be negative and even if it is positive it doesn’t matter because the test isn’t exactly 100% reliable anyway.

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Friedrich Stapß
Friedrich Stapß
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

Brilliant. It’s almost as if the whole thing is just a performance of virtue signalling and social exclusion, designed to shore up a corrupt “elite” by culturally lobotomising the masses.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Friedrich Stapß

Prefer a bottle in front of me to a frontal lobotomy

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Friedrich Stapß

Perfectly said!

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  Friedrich Stapß

It will culturally exclude the unvaxxed, thereby either identifying the dissenters, and also increasing the pressure to comply.
Not like it was predicted last April/May 2020 or anything.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

Presumably if a spot check comes back positive then everyone has to be sent home for 14 days and the event cancelled

(don’t tempt me!!!)

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

This is the insanity of it all – more complications which will then require even more solutions – and yet there is a very simple fix to all of this nonsense that could end all this idiocy tomorrow and that is for the government to simply reverse its previous solutions that have so dramatically failed and are only making things far worse than they need be – reverse your past mistakes and stop repeating them – an obvious solution to this insanity for anyone with half a brain cell ….

It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with ‘solutions’ to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do. – Thomas Sowell

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Baron_Jackfield
Baron_Jackfield
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

+1000

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

I think Sowell wrote that decades ago. Very prescient.

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leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

I bet that they cannot make you do a spot check if you do not consent.

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

If I fail a LFT spot check I’d demand best of three, coz they are so inaccurate.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

You’re not beating the system, you’re complying with it. It’s not about health, it’s about begging for permission.

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Billy Suggers
Billy Suggers
4 years ago
Reply to  Marmalade

There is no facility on the NHS app to do add your at home lateral flow test.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

‘Wimbo’ just got a DNR order slapped on it

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Friedrich Stapß
Friedrich Stapß
4 years ago

Strawberries and cream, madam? Certainly. Would you like a blood clot with that?

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Friedrich Stapß

Oh, and you have been selected for a truly wonderful treat – a stick to be thrust in your most innermost sanctums – down your throat, then rammed up your nose.
Pimms madam? Bottoms up. Har har har.

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Friedrich Stapß
Friedrich Stapß
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Coming next year – anal swabs!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Friedrich Stapß

Don’t you mean Klaus?

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Dobba
Dobba
4 years ago

Let’s stick NHS on everything to make it feel so secure and safe and in our best interests.

Right now – I couldn’t care less if the NHS burned down with all the fucking middle and upper managers as the fuel. I worked for the NHS in the past and there’s too many good people there choked by pen pushers and fat slobs thinking they know what’s best for people’s health just so they can keep their fat pay cheques while doing sod all.

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
4 years ago

Lockdowns probably wont be needed again, they will have achieved their goal – the introduction of digital population control IDs

people have been looking at the wrong threat, the useful idiots have been doing war on lockdown while promoting the experimental ‘vaccines’

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prod_squadron
prod_squadron
4 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Exactly, that’s a crucial point about people looking at the wrong threat. The looming threat is digital id, surveillance state, compulsory mrna vaccines for all manner of diseases on a rolling schedule, compulsion in general. People were squeezed by lockdowns into championing vaccines as “our way out of this” and talking them up “our incredible vaccines more effective than we ever dreamed possible!!”. Are they? We’ll see, come the autumn.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

I’d like to know what Rees-Mogg has been playing at then.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Self certification ? LOL

I wonder if they’ll randomly test the vaccinated too snce they can still ‘catch it’ and even better, so far they are 6x more likely to die than the unvaccinated based on the numbers to date. It’s for their own good after all 😉

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landt2020
landt2020
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

“even better”? What’s wrong with you?

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  landt2020

Nothing as far as I’m aware ? Do I need to do a PCR Test to prove it ???

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eyesee
eyesee
4 years ago

Wimbledon should grow a pair and tell the Govt they will have nothing to do with it and if the Govt want to impinge on personal liberties, then they need to do it themselves. On everything, remember the Infection Fatality Rate for Covid 19 is 0.15 and for flu 0.2. What is this new fear about?

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Dobba
Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  eyesee

Wimbledon and those that run it are probably the dame demographic of people that we have in government. You won’t get rebellion from the strawberries, chambers and cream crowd.

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Dobba
Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

*same demographic and champers and cream. Damn spell correction nannying everything.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Even this plan, which is many years in the making has flaws, many of them coming out now. Compulsory vax for care workers will make the situation even worse and those advocating them for their ‘loved ones’ will find that they will likely have to ‘care’ for them themselves when the minimum wage care workers tell them to stick their jobs. But will the social payment include compulsory jabs? Its going to be a long fight against EVIL

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Yep, social care is very much a job of last resort, hence so many immigrants working in the sector The majority that do it do so coz it’s more convenient than other roles. It’s certainly not for the pay.
I see a lot of folk moving to other low paid jobs and leaving the sector.

And if it’s mandatory in care homes, logic dictates it should be mandatory in the NHS

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

So if they are advocating this, they need a liability clause on the jabs. They also need as they tell us of deaths within 28 days of a jab as they do with 28 days of a positive covid test,

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago

Don’t go, don’t watch.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

It’s still an internal passport.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Given up watching the kneeling and overpaid ‘stars’ of Sport.

Once the foot is in the door, it will just encompass all aspects of life over time.

We all know this. Are there enough unvaccinated to make a boycott workable? Nope.

Looming Check Mate.

Regardless I’ve got my hill to die on. 🙂

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7fonn7
7fonn7
4 years ago

With the govt having “ruled out” making this system compulsory (for now), I think this vax pass trend will whither on the vine. However, this requires the public to snap out of its current state of fear, thus making it more financially advantageous for these deep pocketed event organizers to cut the BS virtue signaling. As always, my optimism is tempered by our current reality and the glacial pace of the public’s awakening.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago

I’m no tennis fan, and Wimbledon is not, therefore, a highlight of my summer. Even if it were, I would shun it like the Plague, since at any time, especially at the finals, there will be seen some vile blond clown, probably with Carrie Antoinette, gurning, elbow-greeting, smirking, posing and taking the mickey out of the rest of us. A proper Eton Mess, in fact.

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prod_squadron
prod_squadron
4 years ago

I’m going to tout the documentary Who Is Bill Gates? made by James Corbett which I’ve just finished watching. It’s very, very good.

I’d entitle it Who Is Bill Gates And What The F**k Is He Up To?

https://www.corbettreport.com/who-is-bill-gates-full-documentary-2020/

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  prod_squadron

A question asked of mad men, for eternity

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
4 years ago
Reply to  prod_squadron

Thanks for recommending this. Have just watched it.

This is absolutely essential viewing for anyone wishing to understand how the world of public health operates and the coming digital ID world. (I expect many here will have already worked out the basics for themselves – but do watch it!).

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

The real problem is the power of politicians in the UK. None of this mess has been brought before Parliament, probably already briefed that there’s no point. They are now following orders from Cabals, lobbyists, global business, anything but constituents. Its been a problem since Blair, and left to fester and grow.

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HeresJohnny
HeresJohnny
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

That is why it is important to shout that the government lost legitimacy the moment it bypassed the parliament and keeps it that way.

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James Kreis
James Kreis
4 years ago

I’m wondering what the late Dan Maskell would have had to say.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Don’t have a smart phone. Don’t have any tests. It’s not illegal to not have a smart phone. It’s not illegal to not test. It is illegal to discriminate. Pointless theatre. Ignore. Move on.

This is one of the problems. Inferring things are required when legally they are not. The test is a great example. Where is the liability for failed / incorrect testing from an unreliable LFT, so insisting on that is utterly pointless, especially so when you can run a test via the kitchen tap and be negative. Such shit all of it.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Well said. I got rid of my iPhone (after owning every single generation of them since the first) a few months ago sensing the growing reliance on them by the slave masters. My £15 Nokia is my own private fuck you to the biosecurity state, and I enjoy writing comically made up names on the forms I’m given in restaurants when they offer them as an alternative to the QR code. Fuck them. Fuck them all.

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Fiona Walker
Fiona Walker
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

My current favourite is Mrs Faye Kerr.

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Fiona Walker

good one!!! I might have a go at that!

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

No one in my family has ever been tested, tracked, traced, muzzled or jabbed. All of us, even our 8 year old, understand what the word voluntary means.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Parliament, muzzled and talking about ‘variants’. When we have just had the exhibition of the G7. Are they being deliberately stupid, because even with an agenda they are looking like the biggest idiots ever when countries and States in the US have now stopped all restrictions. It is now beyond ridiculous.

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago

Why do I need a test if the jab works? Why do I need a jab if you’re testing?

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covidiot
covidiot
4 years ago

Hopefully no-one will launch a DNS attack on the nhsx servers as the gates open and break the system

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago

This is the goal. This is the end game. If we accept this, it will never end. The number of places demanding it will only rise, and the criteria to earn your green smiley face permissions will always expand.

Double dose. Then boosters. Then carbon credits. Then expressing the correct opinions on Facebook. Complete compliance, instant distributed punishment, without process or appeal.

“Gotta watch the footie though, only wankas and fairies don’t support our team.”

Of course, there will be VIP gates for the Party members arriving in their Zils.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Looks like I won’t be entering Wimbledon this year then…

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
4 years ago

VACCINE INDEMNIFICATION FORM Dated: ________________, 2021 Name of Employer/Educational Institution: __________________ It is a fact that [your name] has accepted employment at the company named above/been accepted to attend classes at the above-named institution and was subsequently asked to provide proof of vaccination as a condition to starting the job/wducational course I acknowledge that all the current COVID vaccines possess only emergency use permits and that they have not undergone normal, rigorous drug trials. I am aware that nobody knows, therefore nobody can accurately predict, the long-term effects that might be attributed to the vaccines. I acknowledge that inquiring whether the person named above has been vaccinated is an invasion of privacy. I acknowledge that known, serious post-vaccination ill-effects exist and are documented on the government Yellow Card system. These include, but are not limited to, the following: Anaphylaxis Blood clots Miscarriages Infertility Bell’s Palsy Guillain-Barre syndrome Death I further acknowledge that there is speculation that the vaccine, over time, could cause prion formation (AKA “mad cow disease”), leading to the vaccinated person’s inability to live a conscious life, to a requirement for long-term care, and ultimately, to death.  This has neither been proven nor disproven. I swear, as an official… Read more »

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

After a FOI request, the CPS admitted that no prosecution had been successful against any Coronavirus guidelines. Why are people following them?

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m vendee
m vendee
4 years ago

Absolute bollocks isn’t it. Used the French version at Roland gaross pass sanitaire. Obligitoire for any event with over 1000 attendees I think. They can shove it where the sun don’t shine

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
4 years ago
Reply to  m vendee

My ex recently returned from a trip to Spain.

She was seriously annoyed, having paid £200 for a PCR test, that nobody asked to see it either on the way out or coming back.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
4 years ago

Please please please someone with the appropriate skill set hack these apps. Constantly. It’s probably the only way to get people to abandon them at this point – if the app is always going down and/or is permanently stuck on positive result that should be enough for the sheeple to lose faith.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago

Why don’t they get it over with and make it compulsory to be microchipped? We know that’s the ultimate goal. We will ease (not end) all restrictions once the entire population has embraced the “freedom chip”.

If it’s good enough for dogs, it’s good enough for sheeple.

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