India is the country who had reported at second position in Tier 2 of coronavirus. Britain Prime Minister who was going to visit India by next week has also postponed his coming to meet PM Modi and officials. Lately, Britain also imposed its strictest travel curbs on India after an explosion of coronavirus cases on Monday.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the move in the House of Commons. He revealed the reports gathered from the airports stating that 103 cases of the so-called Indian variant had been identified in the UK, of which the “vast majority have links to international travel”. The people traveling from India have tested positive for coronavirus. He said that samples of that variant have been analyzed to observe if they are concerning characteristics. Hancock stated that India is being added to Britain’s “red list” of countries. The country is banning all arrivals from India except for UK or Irish nationals. The condition applied for them too is that they must pay to stay in a government-approved quarantine hotel for 10 days on their return. The British and Indian governments said Monday that “in the light of the current coronavirus situation,” Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week as planned. The long-planned trip would have been Johnson’s first foreign visit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than a year ago. It was originally scheduled for January but was postponed when infections soared in Britain.

Currently, India is surging cases of corona, reportedly 273,810 new infections on Monday were recorded. It is said that the nation has reported highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic on Monday. It has now reported more than 15 million infections, second only to the United States.

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