{"id":32156,"date":"2021-05-17T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/16\/mp-says-covid-inquiry-must-examine-delay-in-adding-india-to-red-list"},"modified":"2021-05-17T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:59:18","slug":"mp-says-covid-inquiry-must-examine-delay-in-adding-india-to-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32156","title":{"rendered":"MP says Covid inquiry must examine delay in adding India to \u2018red list\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 and health secretary deny politics was involved in decision to wait before toughening travel rules<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A public inquiry must examine whether Boris Johnson\u2019s decision to delay adding India to the travel \u201cred list\u201d of countries was influenced by his desire to start trade talks with Delhi, the chair of a cross-party Covid inquiry group has said.<\/p>\n<p>It came as Downing Street and the health secretary, Matt Hancock, denied politics was involved in the decision to wait 17 days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/coronavirus-india-to-go-on-englands-covid-travel-red-list-on-friday\">putting India on the list<\/a> of countries requiring mandatory hotel quarantine, after Bangladesh and Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-england-adds-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-philippines-to-travel-red-list\">were added<\/a> despite having significantly lower Covid case rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/16\/mp-says-covid-inquiry-must-examine-delay-in-adding-india-to-red-list\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 and health secretary deny politics was involved in decision to wait before toughening travel rulesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA public inquiry must examine whether Boris Johnson\u2019s decision to delay adding India to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,1066,346,62,4,79,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-politics","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions\/32157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}