INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled his check out to India arranged for April 26 and the UK added India to
its Covid-19 travel red list , effectively banning all travel from the nation and making a 10-day hotel quarantine compulsory for UK
homeowners showing up in the country
A BBC report quoted Mr Johnson as saying it was just sensible to cancel the check out in view of the raging pandemic in India which is
battling a ferocious second wave of the Covid pandemic.UK health secretary Matt Hancock validated the move to put India on its red list in
the House of Commons as he revealed that 103 cases of the so-called Indian version had actually been recognized in the UK, of which the
large majority have links to global travel
He stated that samples of that variation have been analysed to see if the brand-new variant has any concerning attributes , such as greater
transmissibility or resistance to treatments and vaccines
After studying the data, and on a preventive basis, we've made the difficult but vital choice to add India to the red list, the minister
This suggests anybody who is not a UK or Irish person can not enter the UK if they have actually been in India in the previous 10 days, he
The new rules, which Mr Hancock stated have not been ignored, will enter into force from Friday
The red list has around 40 badly struck nations
This is the 2nd time in three months that the British PM has cancelled his check out to India
He was originally arranged to be the chief guest at India's Republic Day on January 26 this year but cancelled his visit in early January
due to latest thing pandemic then in Britain.India, which has actually been reporting more than 2,00,000 cases daily, validated the
mutually agreed cancellation in view of the dominating Covid situation and said a virtual conference would be held in the coming days
to introduce plans for a changed India-UK relationship
It included that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the British PM attach the highest importance to taking the India-UK collaboration to
Bilateral political ties in between the two nations have actually strengthened immensely under PM Modi and Mr Johnson
In December in 2015, the foreign ministers of the two nations had actually held discussions in New Delhi on five broad themes-- connecting
people, trade, defence and security, climate and health consisting of the cooperation on the Covid vaccines, with both nations also
settling on crucial elements of a 10 year India-UK roadmap .
