Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage today said she was confident the vaccines currently being used will work against the Indian Covid strain, which has risen to 132 cases in the UK.
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Heathrow refuses to allow extra flights from India because of border queues as passengers scramble to Britain before nation is added to red list at 4am tomorrow amid new variant surge
Heathrow Airport is refusing requests for extra flights from India before country is added to Covid red list
The Asian nation reported a record 315,000 cases as the troublesome variant sweeps the subcontinent
Heathrow told BBC it turned down requests because of concerns about long queues at passport control
Maximum of 20 of the 40 passport control desks at Terminal 2 are being manned because of social distancing
Hundreds of foreigners with fake Covid certificates flooding into UK every week
Updated: 21 Apr 2021, 2:00
HUNDREDS of foreigners with fake Covid certificates are flooding into the UK every week, MPs heard yesterday - as experts warned the Indian variant could be running rampant.
Border officials say around 100 dodgy certificates, which supposedly prove someone has tested negative, are being identifed every day at airports.
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Border officials say around 100 dodgy certificates, which supposedly prove someone has tested negative, are being identifed every day at airportsCredit: Alamy
But many more are being missed because they are written in foreign languages and the documents are “very easy to knock up online”.
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