Posted on Apr 21, 2021
Heathrow refuses to allow extra flights from India
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Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added to the UK travel red list on Friday.
It turned down the requests from airlines because of concerns about queues at passport control.
The airport told the BBC that it did not want to exacerbate existing pressures at the border by allowing more passengers to fly in.
From 0400 on Friday many arrivals from India will be refused entry.
British and Irish passport holders, and people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in, but must quarantine in hotels for 10 days.
Last week, a director at the airport said the situation at the border - which is operated by the Home Office - had become "untenable" because of delays in processing arriving passengers.
It turned down the requests from airlines because of concerns about queues at passport control.
The airport told the BBC that it did not want to exacerbate existing pressures at the border by allowing more passengers to fly in.
From 0400 on Friday many arrivals from India will be refused entry.
British and Irish passport holders, and people with UK residence rights, will be allowed in, but must quarantine in hotels for 10 days.
Last week, a director at the airport said the situation at the border - which is operated by the Home Office - had become "untenable" because of delays in processing arriving passengers.
Heathrow refuses to allow extra flights from India
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With the surge in Covid-19 cases in India, the UK announced denial of landing rights for flights arriving from India into the UK. This news is an update that the UK will now allow British and Irish passport holders entry into the UK from India.
The findings of the Indian 'Double Mutant' mutation of the Covid-19 virus, in the second wave of attacks in India, following the identification of the South African variant, the Brazilian mutation and the European variation of the RNA of Covid-19, a few countries feared, to include the UK, that the new found mutant could find its way into the UK and spread like a wildfire. It is believed that the Double Mutant mutation of the RNA of the Covid-19 genome might be immune to current vaccines available in the market.
The findings of the Indian 'Double Mutant' mutation of the Covid-19 virus, in the second wave of attacks in India, following the identification of the South African variant, the Brazilian mutation and the European variation of the RNA of Covid-19, a few countries feared, to include the UK, that the new found mutant could find its way into the UK and spread like a wildfire. It is believed that the Double Mutant mutation of the RNA of the Covid-19 genome might be immune to current vaccines available in the market.
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