Malta’s hesitancy on the NHS digital certificate verifying Covid-19 vaccination forced Britons to cancel their holidays to Malta, British media report.

Malta had initially announced that it would not accept a digital certification, only a printed version of it. It was later decided that, as from 1 July, Malta was to start accepting the digital certificate.

But this was not before a number of potential British holiday-makers were forced to cancel their trip, and aired their frustration on the social media.

The Argus reports that one of them, Mark Holland, did not have time to request a letter before travelling this week and asked whether a printout of NHS digital certificate would allow entry instead.

Writing on Twitter, he said he was "so gutted" to discover that this would not be enough to allow him into the country.

He said: "I am fully vaccinated, had a negative PCR test yesterday but I had to cancel my trip."

Malta eventually announced that it would be accepting the NHS digital certificate as proof of vaccination.

However, it was too late for Holland as the news came just as his flight as landing without him on it.

The report states that the British High Commission for Malta received a number of messages of frustrated travellers.

The full report may be found here