Covid deaths now reached new milestone, officially 130,000 250 plus died in last 2 days, to the Johnson Variant. Indian variant UK timeline: The 17 days of dithering that allowed the Covid variant to gain a foothold in the UK
It’s been reported that 20,000 people who could have been infected with the Indian Covid variant were allowed to enter the UK in April. Why did it take Boris Johnson 17 days to impose a travel ban on the country? This the latest blunder by blunder bus Boris Johnson in 20 months of Coronavirus with him thinking it was a scare story first and therefore slow off the blocks. But in March 2021, the cases had finally gone down, only for Boris to let it all in, all over again. Air India Timeline 24 March: India reports 47,262 cases and 275 deaths - the biggest daily rise the country has recorded in 2021.
25 March: A new variant is detected in samples collected from India, and comes with the potential to cause the worry of health experts.
2 April: The UK Government announces it is adding Pakistan and Bangladesh to the “red list” of countries, but not India. This is despite case numbers in India being far higher than either country at the time.
16 April: Public Health England (PHE) confirms 73 cases of the B.1.617 variant in England, while four cases have also been discovered in Scotland.
19 April: India is finally added to the “red list” as the country’s Covid infection rate surges. Boris Johnson also cancels his planned trip to Delhi as concerns grow over the deteriorating situation. India reports 273,810 new infections.
23 April: The India travel ban finally kicks in, with UK passengers arriving from India needing to enter hotel quarantine.
25 April: Britain announces it is sending more than 600 pieces of medical equipment to India amid reports that hospitals are running out of oxygen.
13 May: PHE records 1,313 UK cases of the Indian variant, with almost half of these cases related to travel or contact with a traveller.
15 May: The Prime Minister says he will deploy the army to Indian Covid variant hotspots in the UK to assist with surge testing, amid fears the strain could be 50 per cent more transmissible.
As a result of the 17-day delay in imposing a travel ban on India, the UK now finds itself with the highest number of cases of the Indian variant outside India.
According to data from PHE, the new variant cases were brought into the UK primarily on flights from Mumbai and Delhi, as headlines about India’s crisis were dominating the newspapers.
Freedumb Day July 19th
India moves onto the Amber list. Pakistan stays at red.
530,126 people were told by NHS Test and Trace that they had to isolate last week.
Yesterday India suffered +532 deaths and +42,817 new cases.
Pakistan + 46 deaths and +4,722 new cases
NOW, somebody tell me, how an Etonian Oxford Graduate cannot do sums ????????????????
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