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Turkey and Poland have been added to England’s quarantine list, meaning that travelers from the countries will have to self-isolate for two weeks.
People arriving from those destinations after 4 a.m. Saturday will need to self-quarantine, Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps announced.
The Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba have also been added to the list.
The Transport Secretary also revealed that from Friday penalties for people who refuse to self-isolate will be increased to a maximum of £ 10,000 for repeat offenders.
Starting this week, isolating is now a legal duty for anyone told to do so.
The quarantine system is meant to prevent people from high-risk countries from spreading coronavirus in the United Kingdom.
Countries with infection rates of 20 per 100,000 people are at particular risk of being included on the list.
Poland’s two-week rate as of Wednesday was 36 and has been rising, with the percentage of positive tests at 3.7%.
Shapps said that “test positivity has nearly doubled, increasing from 3.9% to 5.8% along with a rapid increase in weekly cases” in the country.
Last week, Denmark, Slovakia and Iceland were added to the quarantine lists for England and Wales.
As efforts to control imported cases continue, latest test and trace data for England it showed a 61% increase in the number of positive tests, as well as an increase in the overall proportion of positive tests to more than 5%.
More than 16 million people also now live under reinforced local restrictions.
The latter will affect people in the Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough city region starting at 12:01 am on Saturday.
It prohibits them from meeting people from other households indoors, even in pubs and restaurants.
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