UK’s Heathrow Airport says no to extra flights from India amid Covid surge

The Heathrow Airport in the UK has refused entry of extra flights from India before the country is added on Friday to Britain's "red-list" of locations. The move by Britain comes after it detected more than 100 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India

Britain's Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added on Friday to Britain's "red-list" of locations from which most travel is banned due to a high number of COVID-19 cases, the airport said on Wednesday. The move by Britain comes after it detected more than 100 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday. "We've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the Red List. This means anyone who is not a UK or Irish resident or a British citizen cannot enter the UK if they've been in India in the previous 10 days," Hancock had told parliament.