Immunity certificates issued to people who have recovered from coronavirus would be "dangerous" and unnecessary, a health expert has said.
English Health Secretary Matt Hancock told a press conference on Thursday that the UK Government was considering handing out the documents to allow people to "get back, as much as possible, to normal life".
But Eleanor Riley, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the University of Edinburgh, said that such certificates would give people a "sense of false security" about the disease. "It's not something that we've ever done before.
When we vaccinate people, particularly for certain diseases where they're going to travel overseas... we give people a certificate saying they have been