I Though That Going Abroad For A Holiday During This Pandemic Had Been Banned

[bluemoon1]

Apparently nipping off to a foreign country for a wedding is ok.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9452909/Passengers-film-chaotic-scenes-Islamabad-Airport-hundreds-race-reach-UK.html

[youngmafbog]

It has been suggested the UK pay for them. Not happened so far.

[youngmafbog]

Have a read of the article, it is in there:

"But with thousands more still in the country, Labour MP for Bolton South East, Yasmin Qureshi, urged Boris Johnson to lay on chartered flights for stranded citizens in Pakistan."

[Sunk]

These will be people returning home for Ramadan which starts next week. They are UK citizens returning home.

Bringing in a new variant is a possibility but I have not heard of the Pakistani Variant.

Pakistan has not really Covid hotbed. The UK have had 127,000 deaths, and Pakistan 15,000 from a population 4 times greater than the UK.

[ichkeria]

I'm not sure I understand the thinking behind the red list countries.
Not saying it doesn't make sense: just don't understand it.