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UK recognises Covishield as COVID-19 vaccine; grants no respite to Indian travellers from 10-day quarantine

London: Days after it drew severe diplomatic flak from India for 'discriminating' against Covishield by not including it in the list of approved COVID-19 vaccines, the UK government, on Wednesday revised its travel advisory said that Covishield qualifies as an approved vaccine. India had threatened that it will reciprocate the same discriminatory protocols if the British government did not recognise the Covishield vaccine.

Despite the approval of Covishield, however, the UK government has denied imparting validity to the Indian vaccine certificate, keeping India in the amber list of countries. This necessarily means that the mandatory 10-day quarantine rule stays for Indians travelling to UK.

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"We are engaging with the Government of India to explore how we could expand UK recognition of vaccine certification to people vaccinated by a relevant public health body in India. Indian travellers to the UK must follow the ‘non-vaccinated rules’," a British High Commission spokesperson in New Delhi said.

"Formulations of the 4 listed vaccines, such as AstraZeneca Covishield, AstraZeneca Vaxzevria and Moderna Takeda, qualify as approved vaccines," the revised advisory on the UK government's official website said. "You must have had a complete course of an approved vaccine at least 14 days before you arrive in England," it further said.

It impacts our citizens: Shringla
Earlier, speaking to the media, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had, on Tuesday said that non-recognition of Covishield was a 'discriminating policy' and claimed that "it impacts our citizens travelling to the UK. The EAM has raised the issue strongly with the new UK foreign secretary". "I am told that certain assurances have been given that this issue will be resolved," he had said.

The non-recognition of the vaccine by the UK government adversely impacted students and professionals travelling to the UK after having taken doses of the vaccine in India. The matter was brought to the notice of the UK government during the meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in Washington DC.

Truss had reciprocated and said that the UK government will review the policy 'in a day or two'.

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