As you anxiously wait to hear if your hospitality business will be adversely affected via any slowdown in Step 4 of the roadmap, you are undoubtedly watching how government is battling the spread of the Indian Covid variant B.1.617. By continuing to let direct flights and thousands of passengers from India into the UK is the answer.
When Brazil, South Africa and every other country on the Red List were added to it, direct flights from those countries ended, it was part of what being on the Red List entailed. Not India. Not the country with 319,497 new cases of Covid confirmed on Monday 17 June (source: John Hopkins University).
Circa 8,500 passengers have travelled to the UK via direct flights from India since India was placed on the Red List. The next direct flight is from Mumbai, BA138 arriving at Heathrow this morning at 6.50 am.
The video in the tweet below takes 4 minutes and 36 seconds to watch and listen. If you were under the impression that the government were tackling the spread of Covid variant B.1.617, in less than 5 minutes you will no longer.
So, the next time you hear a government minister go on about their robust border control system, or the emergency measures in place to contain the spread of B.1.617, you know they are lying.
110 direct flights from India have landed at UK airports since the country was added to the red list, amid rising concerns about the Indian Covid variant, LBC can reveal. @BenKentish has the exclusive. pic.twitter.com/MonEVVLJ0M
— LBC (@LBC) May 18, 2021
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