UK PM Boris Johnson cancels India go to amid outbreak of recent Covid-19 pressure

New Delhi: United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was to be the Chief Guest at Republic Day parade on January 26, has delay his India go to on account of outbreak of recent pressure of coronavirus and imposition extreme lockdown in Britain.
“UK PM called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi today morning, to express regret that he was unable to visit India as planned,” an official assertion mentioned.
“Johnson has expressed hope to visit India in the first half of 2021 ahead of UK’s G 7 Summit that PM Modi is likely to attend as a guest,” it mentioned additional.
India had invited the prime minister of the UK because the Chief Guest within the Republic Day parade in 2021. UK Foreign Secretary Raab visited India in December and introduced Johnson has accepted India’s invitation.
The cancellation of the go to was introduced a day after Prime Minister Johnson imposed the third lockdown within the UK amid rising coronavirus circumstances within the nation. UK has reported greater than 20 lakh COVID-19 circumstances and 70,000 deaths linked to the illness.
UK PM has imposed a brand new stay-at-home lockdown in Covid-19 hit Britain, till at the least mid-February to battle the ‘critical moment’ within the coronavirus pandemic, which has been exacerbated on account of a brand new extremely transmissible variant of the lethal virus.
Johnson has additionally urged folks to remain at residence and defend overburdened United Kingdom National Health Service.

In a collection of tweets, he expressed hope that because the inoculation course of has begun within the nation, the UK is “tilting the odds against COVID-19 in favour of the British People”.
“I want to say to everyone right across the United Kingdom that I know how tough this is, I know how frustrated you are, I know that you have had more than enough of government guidance about defeating this virus. But now more than ever, we must pull together,” he wrote on Twitter.
“With every jab that goes into our arms, we are tilting the odds against Covid and in favour of the British people. And, thanks to the miracle of science, not only is the end in sight but we know exactly how we will get there. But for now, I am afraid, you must once again stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives,” his subsequent tweet learn.

Britain on Monday additionally started rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
Britain has been administrating two vaccines towards COVID-19, one made by Pfizer and BioNTech and the opposite by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. More than a million folks have already obtained their first dose.