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PM Modi cancels travel to UK for G7 as India sees Covid-19 surge

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to the UK to participate in the G7 summit next month, given the massive surge in Covid-19 cases in India. This will be the second multilateral event that Modi has had to give up in a month. “While appreciating the invitation to the Prime Minister by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to attend the G7 summit as a special invitee, given the prevailing Covid-19 situation, it has been decided that the Prime Minister will not attend the G7 summit in person,” the MEA spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Modi will say his bit in a virtual address, but will miss out on the most important in-person international meeting.

This comes after foreign minister S Jaishankar’s recent visit to London for the G7 ministers’ meeting was clouded by the suggestion that two of his team members had tested positive for Covid-19. They subsequently tested negative but it showed the perils of Indians travelling overseas at this point, when the Indian variant is labelled as being “of concern.”

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