 And British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for global acceptance of the Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson said he saw no reason why those who took the AstraZeneca vaccine should be left out if the vaccine passports schemes. And he said this when he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, July 2nd to discuss COVID-19 travel restrictions as cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant surge in Britain. Speaking at a joint news conference after the bilateral meeting, the British Prime Minister thanked Merkel for her work in global diplomacy and in particular her response to COVID-19. Angela, on behalf of the UK, I want to thank you for your truly historic commitment not just to the UK-Germany relationship but to global diplomacy more generally. And I think over the last year, 18 months in particular, your scientific expertise has been instrumental in guiding the global response of India and the AstraZeneca vaccinations. I see no reason at all why those, why the MHRA approved vaccines should not be recognised as part of the vaccine passports. And I'm very confident that that will not prove to be a problem.