Inbound travel and vaccination status (FOI)

Request

When testing inbound passengers for Covid-19, how many of the positive cases have received;

A

One dose of a vaccine

B

Two doses of a vaccine and are considered ‘fully vaccinated’

C

How many people have tested positive for Covid-19 having been requested to isolate after being in close vicinity to a passenger who tests positive.

Response

A to C

There were 20 cases identified from inbound travel between 1 March 2021 and 31 May 2021 (based on the date of the swab). Of these, 13 were not vaccinated, less than five partially vaccinated, less than five fully vaccinated and less than five not currently recorded.

Due to the small number of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to avoid breaching their privacy. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

It is estimated that to undertake a full audit of information held would exceed the 12.5 hours prescribed by regulation under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. Article 16 has therefore been applied.

In line with Covid-19 Status certification, a person is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after they receive their second dose of vaccine. A person is partially vaccinated from any time after their first dose until two weeks after their second dose.

Of the 20 cases from 1 March 2021 to 31 May there were 328 direct contacts. It is not possible to break this number down to contacts whilst on the journey vs other contacts (eg taxi drivers, household contacts, and so on) and some of these cases will be a direct contact of more than one case (potentially counted twice).

Please note that work is currently being undertaken to enable data on this topic to be published on www.gov.je 

Articles applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.