UK PM Boris Johnson’s Republic Day go to to India cancelled amid Covid disaster

Image Source : FILE PHOTO UK PM Boris Johnson India go to cancelled, say experiences.
United Kingdom PM Boris Johnson cancels go to to India later this month, in keeping with Reuters. The UK Prime Minister was scheduled to attend Republic Day celebrations as chief visitor in New Delhi on January 26. Reports mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had formally invited Johnson throughout their November 27 telephonic dialog.

Earlier in 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prolonged greetings to his Indian counterpart “friend” Narendra Modi on his seventieth birthday, expressing hope that the 2 leaders would meet quickly.

“Very best wishes to my friend @NarendraModi on his 70th birthday. I hope to see you soon,” he mentioned on a submit on Twitter.

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has introduced that England will enter one other nationwide lockdown, the third of its variety for the reason that coronavirus pandemic started within the nation early final yr. The lockdown got here into pressure at 12 am on Tuesday, Xinhua information company reported.

In a televised tackle on Monday, he urged folks throughout the nation to “stay at home” aside from permitted causes, echoing the message again in March 2020.

Under the brand new lockdown, individuals are solely allowed to go to work if it is unattainable to do business from home, comparable to development staff. Britons might be allowed to exit to buy requirements together with meals and medicines, and to train, ideally as soon as a day and regionally.

Meanwhile, all colleges and faculties will shut from Tuesday (aside from weak kids and people of key staff), and change to distant studying till the center of February.

Johnson mentioned colleges have been “not unsafe” and kids are “very unlikely” to be considerably affected by even the brand new Covid-19 variant, which was first found within the nation final month and is alleged to be 70 per cent extra transmissible. But colleges might “act as vectors of transmission, causing the virus to spread between households”, he mentioned.

The newest improvement got here as one other 58,784 folks within the UK have examined constructive for the novel coronavirus, marking the best day by day spike for the reason that onset of the pandemic, in keeping with official figures. It was additionally the seventh day in a row that new circumstances have topped 50,000.

The nation now has a complete of two,721,622 circumstances and 75,547 deaths.

Meanwhile, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon additionally introduced that Scotland would enter a brand new lockdown from midnight on Monday, in addition to a shutdown of faculties till February 1. Also on Monday, the UK began the nationwide rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
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