Great Britain put India on the “Red List” of Covid-19 trips on Monday. This effectively bans all travel out of the country and makes 10-day hotel quarantine mandatory for UK residents returning to the country.
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The UK on Monday added India to its “Red List” on Covid-19 travel, which effectively bans all travel out of the country and makes 10-day hotel quarantine mandatory for UK residents returning to the country.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the move in the House of Commons when he revealed that 103 cases of the so-called Indian variant had been identified in the UK, the “vast majority of which have links to international travel”.
He said samples of this variant were analyzed to determine if the new variant had “properties of concern” such as: B. Greater transferability or resistance to treatments and vaccines.
“After examining the data as a precautionary measure, we made the difficult but important decision to put India on the Red List,” the minister told MPs.
“This means that anyone who is not a British or Irish citizen cannot enter the UK if they have been in India in the past 10 days,” he said.
The new rules, which Hancock said were not “taken lightly”, will go into effect Friday.
The move came hours after Downing Street announced it would cancel Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to India next week because of a surge in coronavirus infections in the country.
Earlier, when Johnson was asked whether to put India on the “Red List” of trips, he said it was “a matter for the UK Independent Health Safety Authority to make that decision”.
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