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The Welsh government says it is “actively considering” imposing quarantine restrictions on people traveling to the country from areas of the UK with high numbers of coronavirus cases.
This could include critical areas of England such as the North East, North West and West Midlands.
Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he did not want to take a “nationwide approach” but that the restrictions would apply to people from “high incidence areas in the UK”.
“There is no good reason to prevent someone from Devon, at this time, coming to visit a pre-booked holiday or trip to Pembrokeshire,” he said.
“So we are thinking about how we use something that is proportionate and addresses the reality of the threat that we face.”
He said the Welsh government is “actively considering” the move and that it has been discussed with Prime Minister Mark Drakeford.
The prime minister previously asked Boris Johnson to introduce travel restrictions for people in areas of England under a postal code lockdown.
People in Wales should not enter or leave an area subject to travel restrictions without a reasonable excuse.
But in an interview with BBC Wales, the UK Prime Minister said he did not want to impose such restrictions within the UK.
Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh conservative shadow health minister, also argued that there were “all kinds of questions” that would need to be answered before quarantine restrictions could be considered.
“Now if you start introducing such restrictions in Wales, does that mean that there is a quid pro quo that England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are starting to do with the residents of Wales?” he told BBC Wales.
“What about that engineer who has to come to a Welsh hospital to repair the heart machine from outside Wales who could potentially be living at an access point in England?”
