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Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said ministers must act urgently to get the booking website up and running again.
He said: “More than a year after this pandemic and 50 days after the discovery of the South African strain, there are no excuses for further government incompetence in introducing hotel quarantine.”
Matt Hancock, the health secretary, announced Tuesday that the government had agreed to deals with 16 hotel companies for just under 5,000 rooms.
But the leaked documents showed that a capacity of up to 28,000 hotel rooms is needed for 1,425 arrivals a day during the 10-day quarantine.
Anyone arriving in the UK without having booked their hotel, food, transport and two £ 1,750 Covid trial packs faces a £ 4,000 fine, according to government guidance released Thursday.
The guide also said returning Brits will only be allowed to enter via five airports – Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham and Farnborough – forcing anyone living in the north of England to quarantine hundreds. miles from home.
Those arriving at a different port of entry from the 33 ‘red list’ countries face a £ 10,000 fine and the cost of transport to one of the designated airports.
Hotel quarantine is required by law for any British or UK resident returning from the 33 “red list” countries where Brazilian or South African variants of Covid have been detected. All foreign nationals traveling from those countries are prohibited from entering the UK.
People receiving benefits can request a deferred refund of the bill, which is reduced to £ 3,050 for a family of three adults, £ 2,725 for two adults and one child and £ 2,400 for one adult and two children.
Those in quarantine in hotels will be confined to their rooms for 11 nights and days, patrolled by security guards, and will only be allowed out for exercise with special permission from hotel or security staff, although this is not guaranteed.
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