People travelling to England from 33 high-risk, primarily African, countries (most of which are not high risk) will face “suspended flights”, “long queues at the border” and a juicy “dollop of racism”, a spokesman for Heathrow Airport said.
The airport said “good progress” had been made on a “number of issues” with the government’s hotel quarantine plan, which comes into force today.
If by “good progress” you mean a shocking lack of progress compared to what other countries have done in a fraction of the time. And if by “number of issues” you mean staff and hotels are not ready to accept quarantining people, then sure, they’re ready! – a statement from Gatwick Airport.
The government said it had briefly mentioned the details with airports and hotels 4 weeks ago and reckon it must all be sorted out by now, right?
From Monday, British and Irish citizens and UK residents arriving in England from a “red list” country will have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels for 10 days to try to stop new coronavirus variants entering the country.
If done correctly this will all but halt coronavirus variants coming into the country!
It will not be done correctly.
They will have to pay £1,750 for their stay (even for a Premier Inn, the gall), which covers the cost of; the hotel, transport and testing, a 50% off UberEats voucher, a bar of Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut, a signed card from Boris Johnson, 3 towels that don’t match, a sugar glider, 4 candles, all 5 terrestrial TV channels and a grow your own cress packet.
Those who fail to quarantine in such hotels face fines of £5,000 to £100,000,000,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Unless they claim that they are doing ‘what any good father would do’, in which case they will be allowed to continue as normal.
