Covid: Advice to areas worst-hit by Indian variant will be updated - No 10

Covid: Advice to areas worst-hit by Indian variant will be updated - No 10 Ministers have backtracked over travel advice for eight areas worst-hit by the Indian Covid variant, after a change in guidance led to widespread confusion.

The amended advice asks people to minimise travel into and out of Bolton, Blackburn, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside.

Earlier advice had asked people to avoid non-essential travel altogether. BBC News

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