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WHO warns against Coronavirus 'immunity passports'

The World Health Organisation says 'immunity passports' are no way to ease lockdowns.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says governments should not issue so-called ‘immunity passports’ or ‘risk-free certificates’ as a way of easing lockdowns.

Also in the programme: An orphanage in Belarus seeks help amid a 'critical' coronavirus outbreak, and we hear from a Syrian refugee, now working as a hospital cleaner in London, on the power of the pandemic to change attitudes.

(Picture: A security personnel wearing a face shield (R) checks the passport of a British national before check-in for a special flight to London during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at the Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar on April 25, 2020. Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images)

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