No UK Quarantine For Covishield-Vaccinated Indians

After a string of controversies, the UK has finally allowed Indians fully vaccinated with Covishield to skip quarantine on arrival.

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00:00Non-recognition of Covishield is a discriminatory policy

00:04and does impact on those of our citizens travelling to the UK.

00:07A traveller from India to the UK double-jabbed with Covishield

00:11or another vaccine recognised by the UK regulator

00:14does not have to quarantine.

01:00Good evening.

01:07From Monday the 11th of October,

01:10a traveller from India to the UK double-jabbed with Covishield

01:14or another vaccine recognised by the UK regulator

01:17does not have to quarantine.

01:19So it will be easier and cheaper to enter the UK.

01:22This is great news.

01:24We have been actually open for Indian travellers for months.

01:28We've been issuing thousands of visas to students,

01:31to business travellers, to tourists.

01:34And it's the product of excellent discussions with the Indian authorities.

01:39Some of the noise about this issue over the last few weeks

01:42just shows how keen people are to travel to the UK

01:45and I'm delighted by that.

01:47So let's now go further.

01:49Let's open up more flights between the two countries.

01:52Let's get British tourists able to come into India.

01:55They're desperate to do so.

01:57States business travellers are trying to come into India with e-visas.

02:01This is a further step down the road

02:03set by Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Johnson

02:06when they agreed the comprehensive strategic partnership

02:09between our two countries in May.