LONDON: Pakistani nationals looking to fly back to the country have notbeen able to board flights at the Heathrow Airport.
According to Geo News, airlines have refused to fly back passengers despitePakistan government’s directives that Pakistani passport-holders andstudents would be allowed to travel to the country , provided they hold anegative coronavirus test conducted within 72 hours of the travel time.
The passengers, however, are not being allowed to board flights even with anegative COVID-19 test result. They staged a protest over thenon-cooperation of the airlines at the Heathrow Airport.
Countries including Pakistan placed travel restrictions and closed theirborders to the United Kingdom after a new strain of the coronavirus wasdetected earlier this month.
The new strain, referred to by some experts as the B.1.17 lineage, is notthe first variant of COVID-19 pandemic, but it is said to be up to 70% moretransmissible than the previously dominant strain in the UK.
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It has since been detected in some European countries, South Africa, India,Japan and Pakistan.
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