it went on. the delta variant wasn t mentioned, nor was india. it wasn t on the list, which begged the question why? well, one possible explanation was politics, that borisjohnson had a trip to india in late april that he didn t want to cancel. weeks later, the sunday times reported. the theory goes, the trip would have helped. the government s never accepted that. what is beyond dispute, though, is that by mid april, the pressure on borisjohnson was building. one leading public health academic said india being off the red list was frankly insane . but the government held its line. on the 16th of april, the telegraph asked it about india s absence from the list. a number ten spokesperson said only.
the theory goes, the trip would have helped. the government s never accepted that. what is beyond dispute, though, is that by mid april, the pressure on borisjohnson was building. one leading public health academic said india being off the red list was frankly insane . but the government held its line. on the 16th of april, the telegraph asked it about india s absence from the list. a number ten spokesperson said only. well, we got more detail on the government s thinking when health secretary matt hancock said this in may. when we put pakistan on the red list, and indeed, bangladesh, the positivity of those arriving from pakistan and bangladesh was three times higher that from india. that s why we took those decisions. but publicly available government data doesn t back that up.
red list of countries, the ones facing the strictest travel restrictions. here s the press release. it went on. the delta variant wasn t mentioned, nor was india. it wasn t on the list, which begged the question why? well, one possible explanation was politics, that borisjohnson had a trip to india in late april that he didn t want to cancel. weeks later, the sunday times reported. the theory goes, the trip would have helped. the government s never accepted that. what is beyond dispute, though, is that by mid april, the pressure on borisjohnson was building. 0ne leading public health academic said india being off the red list was frankly insane .