Rejected petition “Remove Pakistan from red list countries”

I would like to bring your attention to this matter where UK Govt has put Pakistan on a red list of the countries from Friday 9th of April 2021. This has caused a lot of panic, distress and problems for the British Pakistani community who are stuck in Pakistan now.

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As it stands Pakistan has an extremely less number of COVID cases which are roughly 13 out of 100,000 whereas
UK stands on 54/100,000
France : 403/100,000
Germany: 137/100,000
India : 24/100,000 (reported by WSJ)
I would also like to mention here that South African variant hasn’t been a concern in Pakistan and no cases were reported of that variant but a lot of cases have been reported of that variant in France, Germany & India yet these countries are not on the UK’s red list.
The British Pakistani community feels discriminated & believes that this decision of putting Pakistan on UKs red list countries appears to be anything but science as so many other countries including UKs neighbouring , all have significantly higher number of COVID cases yet they are not on the red list.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/581974

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Date submitted 6 April 2021
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