They should have shut the border at least two weeks earlier on 9th April. as they did with Pakistan and Bangladesh, who had a lower incidence of cases per head by a considerable amount. In India cases were running at 160000 per day which would rise rapidly to 400000, this was only looking at cases in the cities and is thought to be a huge under estimation of the actual figure. At that level India was one fucking massive petri dish with all sort of mutations of the virus.
It is irrelevant when we found the variant here because it came from India on one of the many flights that arrived in that period or maybe before.
Funnily enough I've not yet heard about he Portuguese variant, yet we decided to ramp up border controls last week.
The borders weren't shut with India early enough and now we are reaping what this government has sown. Its not as if enough people were calling for the borders to be shut because they were,
Weird how Boris finally cancelled his planned trip to India to discuss a trade deal the day they shut the border.
I just think its very sad, not the least that I will probably not be able to watch my team in a packed Lane, due to this shambles.
But Hey Snowflake (as our Kev would say) you are welcome to your own thoughts and opinions, as am I. Good luck.