Criticised for failing to close the UK’s borders to travellers from India after delta was discovered, Johnson said: “We put India on the red list on April 23 and the Delta variant was not so identified until April 28.”
But the BBC fact-checkers pointed out:
It had been identified through genetic sequencing as being in the UK in the week beginning 8 March.
And it had been designated as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 4 April.
While health bodies are constantly monitoring large numbers of emerging mutations, they are given these designations only if they seem to be making the virus spread faster, making people sicker or escaping the defences put up by vaccines or prior infection.
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