{"id":119415,"date":"2021-04-19T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119415"},"modified":"2021-04-19T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:53:20","slug":"covid-19-uk-pm-johnson-cancels-trip-to-india-due-to-virus-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119415","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: UK PM Johnson cancels trip to India due to virus worries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/img\/article\/2020-09\/17\/full\/1600303984-1092.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled a planned trip to India, scheduled to take place next week, due to the current coronavirus situation in India, Johnson&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson had already postponed the trip once from January, when COVID-19 infections were high in Britain. Infections in India are currently surging as the country endures a second wave of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the light of the current coronavirus situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week,&#8221; a joint statement from the British and Indian government, released by Johnson&#8217;s office, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Instead, Prime Ministers Modi and Johnson will speak later this month to agree and launch their ambitious plans for the future partnership between the UK and India.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations with India are seen as a key component of both Britain&#8217;s post-Brexit ambitions to reinvigorate trade with countries outside the European Union, and a diplomatic push to gain more influence in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain has invited India to attend the Group of Seven summit it is hosting in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British health officials said on Sunday they were investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India, but as yet they did not have enough evidence to classify it is as a variant of concern. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled a planned trip to India, scheduled to take place next week, due to the current coronavirus situation in India, Johnson&#8217;s office said. Johnson had already postponed the trip once from January, when COVID-19 infections were high in Britain. Infections in India are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}