Uncertainty around summer holiday plans after '20,000 allowed to enter UK from India'

mirror.co.uk:

Summer holiday plans are up in the air for another month as concerns about the Indian variant grow, it has been reported. While Boris Johnson delayed India to the travel red list at least 20,000 passengers from the country travelled to the UK, the Times reports.

They may have brought cases of the mutant strain with them, which is now accounting for growing numbers of infections in the UK.

The Prime Minister only added India to a group of countries with the strictest travel restrictions on April 23, three weeks after he placed Pakistan and Bangladesh on the red list.

Now there are concerns that the Indian variant could derail lockdown easing plans if it is able to spread widely in the UK. A government source has now told The Times that