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UK Court says adding Pakistan in COVID-19 red list was right
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UK Court says adding Pakistan in COVID-19 red list was right

London’s high court’s judge ‘Justice Linden’ rules that “Pakistan cannot be removed from the Red List as the UK's government has a responsibility to deal with the pandemic.” In April, when the number of cases in Pakistan were exceptionally low compared to its neighboring countries. Despite the fact that Pakistan had a low number of cases. The UK's government went onto put Pakistan in the COVID-19 red list. This shocked the British Pakistanis residing in England. Thus making them take the case to the UK high court. The case lead by British Pakistani nationals in UK Court As of April 9th 2021, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the government of England had put Pakistan on a red list, which means that a travel ban was imposed from England to Pakistan and v...
UK finally removes Pakistan from COVID 19 red list
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UK finally removes Pakistan from COVID 19 red list

With this decision Pakistan got of the red list after around 5 months. This decision eased travel for a lot of Pakistani's situated in the UK On Friday September 17th, British Transport secretary 'Grant Shapps' came out on Twitter and said that the UK has decided to lift off Pakistan from the Red list. Shapps In his tweet stated that 8 countries including Turkey, Maldives and Pakistan will be off the list on 22nd September. This news was surely a relief for all Pakistani's trying to visit the UK, since non UK residents from Pakistan can now visit UK. While on the red list non UK resident Pakistani's were not able to visit UK since the last 5 months. Apart from this, Shapps also tweeted other important updates regarding UK COVID 19 travel protection. In his tweet Shapps said tha...