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And shown to still be lying.
This BBC article appears to back up what the government were saying on that particular point - i.e. more than one consideration before placing a country on the red list;
What are the criteria for going on the red list?
The decision is based on Joint Biosecurity Centre risk assessments, which include:
how good a country's testing structures are, including checking for variants.
how many cases those systems have identified.
whether people in that country have been catching new variants at home or the cases have come from overseas.
evidence of whether that country has exported cases of new variants to other countries, including to the UK.
how good the country's travel links with the UK are.
The first point is important, because the genome sequencing needed to identify new variants is very sophisticated and relatively rare.
But just because a country has found new variants, or has many cases of coronavirus, it will not necessarily be on the red list.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/56801288
Would you vote for Joe Biden?
CNN 2 May 2021
What it's been like fact-checking Joe Biden through 100 days.
By CNN's rough count, Biden has made 29 total false claims in his first 100 days, about one every three-and-a-half days on average.
edition.cnn.com/2021/05/02/politics/fact-check-biden-100-days/index.html