India calls British Covid-19 vaccine rule 'discriminatory', warns of reciprocal measures, South Asia News & Top Stories


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NEW DELHI - India has criticised as "discriminatory" Britain's decision to consider travellers from the country who received the Covishield vaccine as unvaccinated, with New Delhi warning of reciprocal measures in a controversy between two otherwise friendly nations. In a revised travel advisory on Sept 17, Britain did not exempt vaccinated travellers from India from a 10-day quarantine or Covid-19 tests. The move came as Britain expanded the list of countries whose vaccines it recognised and people who were fully vaccinated need not be quarantined, but India is not on the list. The Covishield vaccine, developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca...