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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...