new delhi india on tuesday warned of reciprocal action against uk governments discriminatory move not to ease travel restrictions for indians who have been fully vaccinated with covishieldaccording to new rules announced by the united kingdom indian travellers who have received both doses of the covishield vaccine manufactured by the serum institute of india sii will be considered unvaccinated and will have to undergo selfisolation for 10 days and also the mandatory testsread alsoindian travellers to uk will not benefit from simpler entry rulestravellers going from india to the uk will not benefit from the simpler rules for overseas travellers being adopted there from october 4 india is not on the list of countries covered by the new rules and travellers from here will continue to be covered under the amber list rules that do not requireracist biased indians slam new uk travel curbsthe uk governments new travel rules which do not recognise people vaccinated in india as being fully vaccinated have been blasted as offensive bizarre and racist the new rules mean people vaccinated in india will still have to home quarantine for 10 days in the uk when those vaccinatedshashi tharoor pulls out of uk events to protest quarantine for fully vaccinated indianssenior congress leader shashi tharoor has pulled out of several engagements in the united kingdom which were part of launch events for his new book to protest britains offensive policy of asking fully vaccinated indians to quarantinehave raised the discriminatory nature of uk vaccine recognition for astrazeneca but not covishield discussions on but if they do not satisfy us we would be well within our rights to take reciprocal action foreign secretary harsh vardhan shringla saidcoronavirus live updatesshringla also said that external affairs minister s jaishankar has raised the issue strongly with the new uk foreign secretarynonrecognition of covishield is a discriminating policy and impacts indian citizens travelling to the uk he addedbritain had on friday announced to simplify rules for international travel to england including scrapping the need for fully vaccinated passengers to take expensive covid19 tests on arrival from lowrisk countries under the new proposals destinations will simply be ranked low or high risk instead of the original three categories red amber and green depending on the covid riskthe expanded list of countries whose vaccines are recognised in the uk does not include india it means indians vaccinated with covishield the siiproduced oxfordastrazeneca vaccine would be required to undergo compulsory pcr tests as well as selfisolationuks discriminatory quarantine policy towards india has led to a lot of angersenior congress leader shashi tharoor had on monday announced that he had pulled out of several engagements in the united kingdom which were part of launch events for his new book to protest britains offensive policy of asking fully vaccinated indians to quarantinethe congress has expressed concern over the travel restrictions announced by the uk and urged the government to ensure that there is no inconvenience faced by any indian travelling to that countrytaking a dig