Newspaper headlines: 'No jab, no job' threat and 'red alert' for travel

The Daily Telegraph raises questions about how NHS England classifies people who are in hospital with coronavirus.

The paper has seen an NHS stocktake, showing that on Tuesday almost a quarter of people in hospital with coronavirus were admitted for another reason, such as a broken leg.

Senior Tory backbenchers, such as Sir Iain Duncan Smith, tell the paper they're worried misleading data has led to "flawed decision-making".

The Department of Health says the latest, more nuanced, data on hospitalisations was actually requested by the new Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and the total number of patients with Covid remains a crucial indicator of pressure on the NHS.

The i newspaper reports there could soon be a new "amber watchlist" for travel, which would allow ministers to switch destinations like Spain to the red list at short notice.

This would replace the "amber plus" list - currently affecting France - which requires quarantine even for fully vaccinated arrivals.

The Daily Express says the EU is poised to start what it calls a vengeful "travel war", because of frustrations with the UK's tough stance on post-Brexit trade.

The "travel rules have descended into a French farce", according to the Times, seizing on comments by Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb to the BBC on Thursday.

He said the restrictions were a result of the prevalence of the Beta variant in "the Reunion bit of France" - even though that's a territory thousands of miles away.

This is like "hammering British holidaymakers because of an outbreak on the Falkland Islands", a Brittany Ferries spokesman is reported to have said, wondering "if those in the centre of power have access to an atlas or a geography GCSE between them".

The Times says a senior government source now says Mr Raab was "mistaken", and the decision on France related to cases on the mainland.

"Get the vacc or risk the sack" is Metro's headline, after the foreign secretary also said he was sympathetic to vaccine passports at work.

But vegans could be exempted from any such rules, according to the Daily Telegraph, after ethical veganism was deemed a "protected characteristic" at a tribunal last year.

A law firm tells the paper some vegans may disagree with jabs, on the basis they will inevitably have been tested on animals.

The Daily Mail reports ministers have been accused of introducing vaccine passports "by stealth", after tweaking the NHS app to include "domestic" certification.

It adds ministers have signed a 12-month Covid passport contract with a technology company called Entrust, raising concerns about how long we will be forced to have the pass on our phones.

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"Sorry Geronimo, you've got to go", is a headline in the Daily Mail, which says the High Court has ordered an alpaca with tuberculosis to be put down.

According to the paper, Gloucestershire farmer Helen Macdonald spent £20,000 in legal fees to save the alpaca, who had won prizes in his native New Zealand for his jet-black wool.

She claims two positive skin tests he received in 2017 were unreliable and the "bovine equivalent of a lateral flow test".

The judge rejects this, with mere suspicion of the disease being the legal standard.

But Geronimo's execution warrant has been delayed until Thursday, the paper says, to give Miss Macdonald more time with him - and a chance for the alpaca to enjoy his last meal of grass pellets, which he "adores".