A new ‘red-list’ of high risk countries has been laid out by Downing Street, in a bid to keep mutant strains of coronavirus at bay. UK nationals and residents returning from these destinations will have to quarantine for 10 days in Government sanctioned hotels, or other suitable accommodation.
It is understood arrivals will be escorted directly from the airport to their rooms, where they will have to pay a bill of around £1,500 for their stay.
The rules will only apply to British travellers as foreign citizens who have been in the red-list countries are already banned from entering the country.
In a bid to stop unnecessary travel the other way round, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs today that Britons would be sent home from airports and ports if they could not prove their trip was ‘essential’.
She told the Commons: ‘It is clear that there are still too many people coming in and out of our country each day.
‘And today I am announcing further action to strengthen the health measures we already have at the border, but to reduce passenger flow so that only a small number of people for whom it is absolutely essential to travel are doing so and therefore reducing the risk to our world-leading vaccine programme.’
The full list of countries on the UK’s ‘red-list’
Angola
Argentina
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Cape Verde
Chile
Colombia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ecuador
Eswatini
French Guiana
Guyana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
Seychelles
South Africa
Suriname
Tanzania
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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