Any passengers visiting England from the “red list” country could face up to 10 years in prison, the report said.
Britain’s health secretary Matt Hancock was briefed on the new policy, which went into effect on Monday.
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“We are cracking down on people who provide false information about the passenger locator form,” he said, according to the evening standard. “Anyone who lies on a passenger locator form and tries to hide that they are on the ‘red list’ within ten days of arriving here will face up to ten years in prison.
Hancock said that from Monday residents of the UK and Ireland will have to buy a “quarantine package” for those arriving in England from places on the government’s “red list” which costs 2, 4,400 per person and includes accommodation, virus testing and other items.
There are 33 countries, including South Africa, Portugal and the whole of South America, from which travel to England has been largely banned due to concerns about new types of coronavirus.
Hancock made headlines last week when he said in an interview that the 2011 film “Quantagion” helped influence his approach to how to best roll the Covid-1 vaccine in the UK.
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The Independent reported that 12,364 new cases and 1,052 deaths were reported in the UK on Tuesday. There have been a total of 113,850 deaths linked to the virus.
The Associated Press contributes to this report
