No Quarantine For Fully Vaccinated Indians Travelling To UK From Oct 11: All You Need To Know
The United Kingdom on Thursday announced that Indians, fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other UK-approved vaccine, will not need to go into quarantine on travelling to the country from October 11.This ended a row over what was perceived as unfair imposition of COVID-19 quarantine rules.
"No quarantine for India travellers"
"No quarantine for India travellers to United Kingdom fully vaccinated with Covishield or another UK-approved vaccine from 11 October. Thanks to Indian government for close cooperation over last month," British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis tweeted on Thursday.
Weeks after UK had imposed quarantine restrictions on Indian travellers, India had last Friday reciprocated it by declaring that UK nationals arriving here from that country would have to undergo mandatory 10-day quarantine from October 4 (Sunday midnight)
UK's old discriminatory rule
Described as discriminatory and even "colonialist", the UK government had faced intense backlash over its refusal to recognise visitors as vaccinated unless they received their shots in a handful of select countries.
UK had earlier said if a person isn't fully vaccinated with one of the four UK-recognised vaccines - Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna and Janssen - or any formulation of these vaccines, including Covishield, the person must take a pre-departure test, and must take a COVID-19 test on or before day 2 and on or after day 8, and self-isolate for 10 days.
Other changes?
"I'm also making changes so travellers visiting England have fewer entry requirements, by recognising those with fully-vax status from 37 new countries and territories including India, Turkey and Ghana, treating them the same as UK fully vax passengers," Britain's Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps tweeted.?
"The decision was taken after close technical cooperation between our ministries taking public health factors into account," a British High Commission spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.?
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