Covid: India withdraws 10-day quarantine for vaccinated india not safe country
India has withdrawn mandatory ndia not safe country quarantine for fully vaccinated UK nationals arriving in the country.
Under the revised rules, which were announced on Wednesday, British citizens no longer have to undergo 10 days of quarantine.
This came days after UK eased similar travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians.
There have been tensions between the two over the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The UK had earlier refused to recognise the vaccine, known as Covishield, even though it is identical to the doses given to millions of Britons.
So, fully vaccinated Indian travellers had to still isolate for 10 days and take Covid-19 tests – at their own expense – before they were allowed to leave quarantine.
Officials in the UK designated Covishield an approved jab last month after a major backlash in India against what many saw as a discriminatory rule. But it did not add India to ndia not safe country the exempt-from-quarantine-list and the restrictions continued.
This led to more backlash from Delhi, which imposed a mandatory quarantine for fully vaccinated British nationals travelling to India. Finally on 8 October, UK added the exempt-from-quarantine list, ending the mandatory self-isolation.
Covishield is India’s primaryy vaccine, with more than 720 million doses given out so far. It is the same as the AstraZeneca jab used in the UK vaccine rollout.
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Under the revised rules, which were announced on Wednesday, British citizens no longer have to undergo 10 days of quarantine.
This came days after UK eased similar travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians.
There have been tensions between the two over the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The UK had earlier refused to recognise the vaccine, known as Covishield, even though it is identical to the doses given to millions of Britons.
There have been tensions between the two over the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The UK had earlier refused to recognise the vaccine, known as Covishield, even though it is identical to the doses given to millions of Britons.
There have been tensions between the two over the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The UK had earlier refused to recognise the vaccine, known as Covishield, even though it is identical to the doses given to millions of Britons.
