The UK government will go ahead with plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccine passports for nightclubs and large venues, the country’s vaccines ministry confirmed Sunday. UK Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi previously stated that the country would not impose vaccine passports, but he said in an interview with the BBC that the government will look to impose the system by the end of September. The government may shut down businesses in the future if passports are not mandated for certain venues, he added. “When the evidence that you are presented is so clear cut and that we want to make sure the industry doesn’t have to go through [an]open-shut, open-shut sort of strategy, then the right thing to do is to introduce that by the end of September when all over 18 year-olds have had their two jabs,” Zahawi told the BBC. “One thing that we have learnt is that in large gatherings of …