Growing questions are also being asked about the failure to make people arriving into the country from India quarantine earlier, after it emerged the government failed to put India on the ‘red list’ even though infection rates were nearly 50 times higher among arrivals from the country than the rest of the UK.
Of the 3,345 people touching down in Britain from India between March 25 and April 7, some 4.8% tested positive for Covid, compared to just 0.1 per cent of people in England, Public Health England data shows.
It is the latest statistic to be brandished at the Prime Minister, with pressure growing over his decision to delay banning travel from the Asian nation until late April, even though flights to and from neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh were restricted two weeks earlier.
Meanwhile, it was also claimed today upwards of 20,000 passengers who may have been carrying a virulent strain were given the green light to enter the country without quarantine as Mr Johnson put off enforcing a travel ban.
Fears are growing that the Indian variant of coronavirus is up to 50% more infectious than the Kent strain, which would mean it could spread widely enough through the younger unvaccinated members of the population that it could still serious third wave despite the success of the vaccine drive.
Ministers are hoping to accelerate the vaccine drive because the jab
is still effective against the Indian variant and wider levels of
vaccination could halt its spread, but as it stands lockdown
restrictions will still be eased further on Monday....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
