EU decision to add UK to travel ‘white list’ to be delayed due to Covid variant

Rising number of UK cases of India variant to push back Brussels decision by two weeks

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A decision in Brussels to add the UK to an EU white list" of countries from where tourists will be welcome this summer is to be delayed, it is understood, due to concerns over the Covid variant first identified in India.

EU diplomats were expected to use a new lower threshold of infection cases to extend the list of countries at a meeting on Friday but sources said that the decision will be put back by two weeks.