On August 8, the UK’ will remove India from Red List.
Intelligent Overseas Education Travel Update: This Sunday, India will be removed from the United Kingdom’s Red List, allowing tens of thousands of Indian students to come to the UK in the following seasons and those travelling from India to the UK to avoid staying in supervised quarantine hotels for ten days. As an alternative, people can quarantine in their residence or at the location where they are travelling.
On Wednesday, UK transport secretary Grant Shapps MP tweeted that the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, and Bahrain will transfer from the Red List to the Amber List. “All of the modifications will take effect on Sunday, August 8 at 4 a.m.” Pakistan and Bangladesh, also included in the Red List on April 9, will remain on the list indefinitely.
“The situation in these nations has improved,” a government official said of the removal of India, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from the red to the amber list. Shapps added that the program’s success was due to “global family, friend, and business connections“.
Travellers who have visited a nation on the Red List in the previous ten days are not permitted to enter the United Kingdom unless they are British or Irish citizens or have residency rights in the country. On April 23, the UK put India on the Red List. Those travelling from India must be quarantined at a controlled hotel for ten days – at their own expense of £1,750 per adult (which will rise to £2,285 for purchases made on or after August 12) and undergo two Covid tests since then. According to a government spokeswoman, the fee hike implemented guarantees the taxpayers that they are not subsidizing the rising expenses of residing in these institutions.
Travellers who have been in quarantine hotels have often expressed their dissatisfaction with the cuisine, the scarcity of clean air, the inability to open windows, being treated like prisoners by security officers, and being unable to depart their rooms save for 15-minute excursions outside the facility.
Mumbai, Delhi, and the big cities are virtually free of Covid, according to Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla.
Aside from overseas tuition fees and airfares, Indian student organizations in the UK have been campaigning for India to be removed from the Red List.
Once India is declared Amber, Indian residents who do not have residency privileges in the United Kingdom would be free to visit the country once more. If you arrive in the United States from India after August 8, you must quarantine at homes or where you are spending for ten days and submit to two Covid-19 tests.
Indians subjected to Covishield, Covaxin, or Sputnik V will not be excused from home quarantine.
Those completely vaccinated in the UK or immunized with a vaccine authorized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Europe, Swiss medic for Switzerland, or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the USA, will be excluded from the obligation to stay in the nation.
Vaccine recipients in India should be treated similarly to those in Europe. “Either that, or it is prejudice,” said Sunil Amar, a private banker who, on a trip to Delhi in June, was subjected to a 10-day managed quarantine, which he characterized as “mental torment.”
The decision to remove India out from Red List met a mixed response.
“This is great news for airlines, and removing India from the red list makes sense.” Amar expects 50/50 compliance with home quarantine laws. The UK should carry out spot checks.
“There may be a third phase in India,” says Puneet Dwivedi, 39, of Assam, who returned from India in June and had a similar harrowing quarantine hotel stay.
“We are delighted that India has been delisted. The data reveals that the number of instances has decreased in India, and this will benefit Indian students who cannot pay the high hotel quarantine costs,” said Amit Tiwari, president of the Indian National Students Association of the United Kingdom.
In the next several weeks, it is estimated that approximately 65,000 Indian students would arrive in the United Kingdom. Their mental health should stay on campus rather than in a hotel alone in a foreign country, says Sanam Arora, the National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU) in the UK. “We are delighted that NISAU heard us and rewarded our perseverance.“
In addition to India being placed on the amber list, the government announced that Georgia, Mayotte, Mexico, and Reunion would be placed on the red list as 4 a.m. On August 8 because they pose a high public health risk to the United Kingdom due to recognized mutations of concern, known variants under investigation, or very high in-country prevalence. Due to their ability to demonstrate that they “represent a low danger to public health,” the government will add Austria, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the green list.
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