Covid-19: India joins 'red list' and human-to-cat transmission cases Published 1. India joins UK's 'red list' as travel ban begins Travel to the UK from India is effectively banned from today, as the coronavirus-ravaged country is moved on to the "red list". While UK and Irish nationals will still be allowed entry, they must quarantine in a government-approved hotel. People have been telling us of the scramble to get back from India, which has seen infections soaring, a rapidly rising death toll and the discovery of a new virus variant. image captionBiju Mathew flew from Kochi via Mumbai and Frankfurt to Manchester before the ban came into effect