Scientists ‘angry’ at UK visa denials

LONDON, Nov 10, (RTRS): Scientists in Britain expressed concern after at least 17 delegates from Africa and Asia wanting to attend a health conference in London were denied visas.

Peter Piot, a Belgianborn microbiologist who was part of a team that discovered the Ebola virus in the 1970s and is now director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was among those protesting against restrictive criteria for granting shortterm business visas.