India warns UK of reciprocal steps over vaccine ‘discrimination’

印度警告英国，将采取“对等措施”应对疫苗“歧视”

NEW DELHI: Describing the non-recognition of Covishield by the UK as a discriminatory policy, India Tuesday warned Britain of “reciprocal measures’’ if the latter didn’t address India’s concerns over its new travel rules.

新德里：周二，印度称英国不承认Covishield疫苗是歧视性政策，警告英国，如果不解决印度对其新旅行规则的担忧，将采取“对等措施”。

Foreign secretary Harsh Shringla said the issue had also been taken up by foreign minister S Jaishankar with the UK authorities. The friction point has arisen at a time when India-UK ties are seen on an upswing with the two sides working to complete a trade pact. The new rules are seen to seriously inconvenience Indian travellers.

印度外交秘书Harsh Shringla表示，印度外交部长苏杰生也向英国当局提出了这个问题。摩擦点出现之际，印英关系正处于上升阶段，双方正努力达成一项贸易协定。新规给印度旅客带来了严重不便。

“The basic issue is that here is a vaccine, Covishield, which is a licensed product of the UK company, manufactured in India of which we have supplied five million doses to the UK at the request of the government of UK,” said Shringla, pointing to the inconsistency in the rules announced by the British government. According to the new rules, Indian travellers who have received both doses of Covishield vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India will be considered unvaccinated and will have to self-isolate for 10 days.

“Covishield疫苗是英国公司的授权产品，在印度生产，应英国政府公司的要求，我们已经向英国提供了500万剂，”Shringla说道，他指出英国政府宣布的规定前后矛盾。根据新规定，接种了印度血清研究所生产的两剂Covishield疫苗的印度旅客将被视为未接种疫苗，必须自行隔离10天。

“We understand that this is being used under the national health system, and, therefore, non-recognition of Covishield is a discriminatory policy and does impact those of our citizens travelling to the UK,” Shringla added.

Shringla补充道：“我们知道他们的卫生系统已经使用了这些疫苗，因此，不承认Covishield是一项歧视性政策，并会影响到我们前往英国的公民。”

Sources said India will take reciprocal action against travellers from the UK if its concerns are not addressed by October 4, when the new British rules will come into effect. The foreign secretary said he has been told that certain “assurances” were being given by the UK that the issue will be resolved.

消息人士称，如果印度的担忧在10月4日之前得不到解决，印度将对来自英国的游客采取对等措施，届时英国的新规将生效。外交秘书表示，他被告知，英国已经做出了一定的“保证”，这个问题将会得到解决。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Santosh Kumar D

British stupidity in the open. They accept the plain paper vacccination card from US but not the security coded vaccination letter from Indian government, hypocrites !!

80 percentage of Indians have had the Astra zeneca jabs made in India by the Serum Institute. May be the English want India to donate some security code reading machines to install in the UK airports. Lol

英国人太愚蠢了。他们承认美国的普通纸质疫苗接种卡，却不承认印度政府的安全编码疫苗接种证明，伪君子！

80%的印度人接种了血清研究所在印度生产的阿斯特拉捷利康疫苗。也许英国人想让印度捐赠一些安全码读取机，安装在英国机场，哈哈

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These Brits are a bunch of jokers .. their mindset will never change .. such a small narrow minded people and country .. they should be put in their place

英国人是一群小丑…他们的心态永远不会改变。如此狭隘的民族和国家，应该让他们摆正位置安分守己

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Its PAKI hand behind this discrimination! Who is Britons Health minister?? Sajid Javid.. This, Paki is creating this discrimination deliberately..

这种歧视是巴基斯坦一手造成的！

英国卫生大臣是谁？

Sajid Javid，这个巴基斯坦裔故意制造这种歧视。

jcpatel55

 Do not warn, just do it.

不要警告，直接报复就是了。

Balachandran Nair

Exactly

没错

Sanjay Null

Good move by India. India is capable to reciprocate under good leadership now.

印度干得好，有强硬的领导人在，现在印度有能力做出回应。

Sham Nv

Need action. Enough of talking

说得够多了，要行动

Pc

Winston Churchill famously said "Indians are beastly people with beastly religions. British never apologized for the 200 years of illegal occupation and invasion of India. There were no reparations from the British government. They looted Indian weath and massacred millions. The vaccine discrimination is actually a smaller picture. UK travel visa fees are exorbitant only for "Indians".

温斯顿·丘吉尔有句名言：“印度人是信奉野蛮宗教的野蛮人。”

英国从未为其200年的非法占领和入侵向印度道歉，英国政府没有赔偿。

他们掠夺了印度人的财富，屠杀了数百万人。

疫苗歧视实际上是一个小问题。英国旅游签证只对“印度人”收高额的签证费。

t k

this is why I vote for Modi. thus government unlike congress puts their foot down when they have to.

这就是我投票给莫迪的原因。与国大党不同的是，现任政府在必要的时候会采取坚定立场。

hindustani

Yep, reciprocal step should work just fine.

对，采取对等措施管用。

Vmcx

This should not be escalated as it will hurt both sides. Discussions between two governments will resolve the issue.

这件事不该升级，否则会伤害双方。两国政府应讨论解决这个问题。

Ragnorok

UK is becoming more and more irrelevant in the modern world. If UK shows some stupid dumb arrogance, it will be the loser. India is the emerging leader both militarily and economically. India is third largest economy by PPP terms already and will be in $ terms in another 15 years. The mind set of Kings, Queens, Princes, Lords still persistent there, when don't have enough money to pay bills..

英国在现代世界变得越来越无关紧要。如果英国表现出一些愚蠢的傲慢，它将成为输家。

印度在军事和经济上都是新兴的领导者。

按购买力平价计算，印度已经是第三大经济体，再过15年，按美元计算，印度将成为第三大经济体。

女王、王子、贵族已经没有足够的钱支付账单了，他们的思维模式还是老样子。

Indian

A British-Pakistani must have taken this decision. Eng is infested with immigrant Pakistani rats which are working to change demographics of Eng.

肯定是一个巴基斯坦裔英国人做出了这个决定。英国到处都是巴基斯坦移民，他们正在改变英国的人口结构。

Bala Raman

Super warning. do not take anything lying down. Give it back in the same coin.

警告得好。不要逆来顺受，要以其人之道还治其人之身。

Guest

Kudos to Modiji. He will never allow any country to be unreasonable and rightly put his foot down.

向莫迪致敬。他绝不允许任何国家无理取闹，采取坚定立场！

VocalForLocal

If each Indian and people of Indian origin stand united.... there is no way countries like US, UK, China or in fact any other country in the world can dare to bully us.... Unity is Power... Jai Hind

如果每个印度人和所有印度裔都团结起来....美国、英国、中国或其他国家都不敢欺负我们....团结就是力量……印度必胜！

SMYTH WINGZ

time to teach white is not the only colour !

是时候给白人一个教训了！

Asish Ray

International lobby is working against India made vaccine..

Covaxn is yet to get nod from WHO...with no apparent reasons..

Western World never thought that India could manage Covid with its own vaccine...they infact lost billion dollars business of vaccine export to India.

国际游说团体正在反对印度制造的疫苗，Covaxn还没有得到世界卫生组织的认可，无缘无故…西方世界从没想过印度能用自己的疫苗…事实上，他们在向印度出口疫苗的生意上损失了数十亿美元

Bijoy Kumar Sinha

Very heartening news . Here " would like to spell that Citizens have very correctly voted to Power NDA ie MODI GOVERNMENT.LONG LIVE MODIJI & LEAD AS LONG AS YOU CAN . INDIA & CITIZENS EXPECT LOT FROM YOU .

JAI HIND.

非常振奋人心的消息。在这里，我想说的是，公民投票给了莫迪政府是非常正确的。莫迪万岁，能领导印度多久就领导多久。印度人民对你的期望很高。印度必胜！

John P

UK still is thinking that India is same when British were ruling

英国仍然认为现在的印度还和英国殖民下的印度一样

Gurunathan Rajamani

THIS IS COLONIAL MIND SET of a few sitting as law makers in UK. When India is the leader of the world by producing and supplying quality vaccines to the entire world, these (in)sects making rediculous laws imposing restrictions on travellers from India.

这是英国少数议员的殖民思维。当印度通过生产和向全世界提供高质量的疫苗而成为世界领导者时，这些人制定了荒谬的法律，对来自印度的旅行者施加限制。