UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancels his India visit amid COVID-19 surge

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be visiting India next week due to the COVID-19 situation in the country, MEA announced on Monday. 

“In view of the COVID-19 situation, it has been decided by mutual agreement that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will not visit India next week. The two sides will be holding a virtual meeting in the coming days to launch plans for a transformed India-UK relationship,” MEA said in a statement. 

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Boris Johnson was supposed to arrive in India on April 25 to agree on a ‘Roadmap 2030’ for re-energised relations between the two countries across trade and investment and climate action.

“The visit of PM Johnson is expected to positively transform the partnership across the wide-spectrum of issues and areas relating to Defence and Security, the Indo-Pacific and Western Indian Ocean Region (WIOR), Trade and Investments, Health care, Climate Change and people-to-people connect,” the High Commission of India in London had said in a statement earlier this month.