UK tightens restrictions on arrivals from at-risk countries
Interior Minister Priti Patel (here January 10) lamented that people continued to go on vacation.
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The government of Boris Johnson has just announced the imposition of a quarantine at the hotel on residents in the United Kingdom from 22 countries, including South Africa, Portugal and South America in order to '' avoid importing variants of Covid potentially resistant to vaccines.
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With our correspondent in London,
Muriel Delcroix
Access to the territory is already prohibited to most foreign visitors and from now on Britons and UK residents will have to isolate themselves in government-provided accommodation, including hotels, for ten days without exception and above all at their own expense. .
These travelers will be taken care of upon arrival and escorted directly to the site of their quarantine.
A hardening which is intended to dissuade whereas in Parliament the Minister of the Interior Priti Patel deplored the fact that people continued to go on vacation despite the
current context
: “
People simply should not travel.
Travelers have been seen arriving at St. Pancras station with their skis.
This is clearly unacceptable.
We also see a lot of celebrities bragging on social media that they are in heavenly places.
But going on vacation is not one of the exemptions.
"
However, this measure goes less than a quarantine in a hotel for all arrivals, a proposal ultimately rejected by the government but demanded by the Labor opposition which criticized a decision "
too timid and too late
" and accused Boris Johnson of "
going from one crisis to another
”by its lack of responsiveness.
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See also: Boris Johnson criticized by doctors as the United Kingdom passes the 100,000 dead mark
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