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Scots Indians say Nicola Sturgeon's renaming of Covid variant is 'silly'
Nicola Sturgeon yesterday after she renamed a strain of Covid-19 over fears it would lead to prejudice. They said the First Minister’s decision to start referring to the Indian variant of the killer bug as “April-02” was “silly”.The Indian Council of Scotland accused Sturgeon of “playing to the galleries”.Neil Lal, president of the group which represents Scotland’s 33,000 Indians, said: “I’ve not heard from one Indian who has voiced any concern over a Covid strain being called the Indian variant.
