UK imposes travel restrictions on people coming from india
By IANS| Posted by Neha | Updated: 19th April 2021 11:56 pm IST Representational Photo
New Delhi: The UK will impose travel restrictions on air passengers coming from India due to the fast-spreading coronavirus variant in the South Asian country, reports said on Monday.
India was added in the ‘Red List’ of countries, or those countries, whose citizens can not freely travel to the UK.
Reports quoted UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock terming the decision as a difficult but vital one to make.
As per norms, non-UK or Irish citizens will not be allowed to enter the European country post early morning on Friday.
18 Apr 2021
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock owns a large number of shares in a company which has been awarded National Health Service contracts. But according to the Department of Health and Social Care (the ministry he heads), he has behaved “entirely properly”.
Has he, though? Has he really? If so then the state’s definition of acceptable behaviour for government ministers and the general public’s definition thereof must be at least a million miles apart.
True it may be that by the Augean standards of government procurement scandals this one is relatively small beer.
It goes like this: Hancock has a 15 per cent shareholding in his sister’s company Topwood Ltd, which specialises in waste disposal services. This year it won a £300,000 contract from NHS Wales and it also has ‘approved status’ to provide services to NHS England too, though so far it hasn’t won any contracts.
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