Sellers are advertising Covid-19 date stamps and badges for sale on Amazon which could help people falsely claim they have had their vaccination.
Some 28million Britons have so far received their first dose of the jab, and everyone who is vaccinated receives a card stating the name, date and batch number of the inoculation they receive.
MaxStamp is selling AstraZeneca and Pfizer BioNTech ink presses on Amazon, ranging in price from £8.95 for a single stamp to £27.99 for a set including a date stamp.
The presses could help Britons fake vaccination cards, though MaxStamp claims they are produced to help NHS workers speed through the process.
The firm also makes customisable stamps for medics, which state their name and General Medical Council number.
Sellers are advertising Covid-19 date stamps and badges for sale on Amazon which could help people to falsely claim they have had their vaccination. Pictured: An advertisement
Shoppers have claimed that sale of the Covid-19 vaccine stamps is ‘irresponsible’, adding: ‘It beggars belief that these could be on sale.
‘They could fall into the hands of fraudsters.’
However, many Britons who have received the jab have had their Covid-19 vaccination cards filled in by hand inside clinics.
It comes as Boris Johnson yesterday admitted vaccine passports ‘could have a role to play’ in Britain as pub gardens prepare to reopen on April 12.
The Prime Minister said the result of a review into coronavirus health certificates is expected by that date, although it may not be possible to roll them out until everyone has been offered a dose.
Amazon is also selling products which could help Britons suggest that have received a vaccination, including lanyards and ‘I’ve had my Covid vaccination’ badges
Pictured: ‘I’ve had my Covid vaccination’ badges for sale on Amazon for £3.49
He added it needs to be done carefully because some people have medical reasons they cannot get jabbed and there are ‘moral complexities’ and ‘ethical problems’.
The stamps are sold online in packs of three – including an AstraZeneca, Pfizer BioNTech and a date stamp – and as individual products.
The description says: ‘These fit perfectly onto the card. We can save the NHS time, just stamp it.’
Amazon is also selling products which could help Britons suggest that have received a vaccination, including lanyards and ‘I’ve had my Covid vaccination’ badges.
It comes as landlords and brewers yesterday revolted over plans for vaccine passports for pubs after it was revealed hospitality venues could be allowed to bar customers who cannot prove they have had a Covid jab or a negative test.
Mr Johnson previously told MPs landlords might be given powers to impose tough entry requirements on drinkers – and Government sources confirmed this was part of an official review of vaccine passports.
He said: ‘Obviously we’re looking at the issues that are raised by vaccination certification – what can you do?
‘Now, in aviation, clearly there are lots of countries are thinking about using some sort of vaccine passport, and I think that there are three basic components.
Shoppers have claimed that sale of the Covid-19 vaccine stamps is ‘irresponsible’, adding: ‘It beggars belief that these could be on sale’
‘There’s the vaccine, there’s your immunity that you might have after you’ve had Covid, and then there’s testing. So there are three things that could work together.
‘No decisions have been taken at all. One thing I will make clear is none of this is obviously going to apply on April 12, when it will all be outdoors anyway. So whatever happens on April 12 will be unaffected.
‘All sorts of things are being considered. What we want to do is roll out the vaccine programme and see what that builds in terms of general resistance to the virus. And I do think there is going to be a role for certification.
‘What we’ve said is that we’ll be reporting on the work of the certification group in early April, either on April 5 or on April 12.
‘I think we need to think carefully about the issues – as I’ve said before, there are lots of difficult issues because there are some people who for medical reasons can’t get a vaccination, pregnant women can’t get a vaccination at the moment.
‘You’ve got to be careful about how you do this, you might only be able to implement a thorough-going vaccinate passport scheme, even if you wanted such a thing, in the context of when absolutely everybody had been offered a vaccine.’
Britons on the ground in Leeds, Birmingham and London also seemed split, with some hailing the passports as ‘the best way to keep infections down’ while others said ‘it was unfair on people who had not had their vaccine’.
Pub bosses across Britain said the idea for pubs was ‘absurd’ and ‘unworkable’ and signalled they would not ask customers for proof that they had been inoculated or were clear of coronavirus.
They could even face a choice between being half-full with social distancing measures in place – or using vaccine certificates so they could open at full capacity, a Government source told the Times.
Amazon declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline.