Ministers risk damaging trust in the vaccine if they strong-arm young people into getting jabbed, a government adviser warned yesterday.
Under plans being considered by the Government, football fans who are not fully vaccinated could be barred from attending Premier League matches from October.
Fans warned that a proposal to make vaccine passports mandatory for events with more than 20,000 attending could cause 'chaos'. Health experts also cautioned that a heavy-handed approach could have an adverse impact.
Professor Adam Finn, of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said people could be 'nudged' to get jabbed but must not feel they are being forced into it.