{"id":23798,"date":"2021-02-10T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2021-02-10T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:49:02","slug":"britain-urges-illegal-immigrants-to-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/02\/10\/britain-urges-illegal-immigrants-to-get-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain urges illegal immigrants to get vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Desk:<\/strong> The British government has taken an unprecedented initiative to include illegal immigrants in the corona virus vaccination program. Calling on illegal immigrants to register for the vaccine without fear, the government said no action would be taken against them at the time of vaccination. The British government has taken this new step to achieve fast hard immunity. This was reported by The Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Citing government officials, the report said illegal immigrants do not have to face punishment to get vaccinated. This does not mean, however, that they will be given priority in vaccination or given other rights. This means that they will not be penalized if they register with a family doctor (general practitioner or GP) to get vaccinated.<br \/>\nA White House source said the key to the initiative is for everyone to be vaccinated, for everyone&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, there is no official account of exactly how many illegal immigrants there are in Britain. However, it is estimated that their number is approximately 13 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesman said on Sunday that everyone would be vaccinated against the corona virus for free. In this case, immigration status will not have any effect.<\/p>\n<p>He said that those who have already registered with a GP are being contacted as soon as possible and those who have not yet registered are being contacted in collaboration with partner and outside agencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Mail, all types of illegal immigrants, including those who enter illegally, even if their visas have expired, will be given the opportunity to be vaccinated without fear.<\/p>\n<p>No legal action will be taken against them.<br \/>\nThe UK National Health Service has been instructed not to verify the immigration status of any person going to be vaccinated. The same procedure applies to anyone who goes for a corona test or is treated for the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: The British government has taken an unprecedented initiative to include illegal immigrants in the corona virus vaccination program. Calling on illegal immigrants to register for the vaccine without fear, the government said no action would be taken against them at the time of vaccination. The British government has taken this new step to achieve fast hard immunity. This was reported by The Daily Mail. Citing government officials, the report said illegal immigrants do not have to face punishment to get vaccinated. This does not mean, however, that they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23799,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions\/23799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}