Mandatory Quarantine for Travellers Arriving in the UK

UK Mandatory Quarantine for Travellers Arriving in the UK

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00:00 - UK Mandatory Quarantine for Travellers Arriving in the UK

01:22 - UK COVID-19 Update: UK hotel quarantine

Almost a year since the pandemic began, the UK has introduced its toughest measure yet for travellers arriving in the UK.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week that travellers still allowed to come to the UK from a “red list” of high-risk countries would be “met at the airport and transported directly into quarantine”.

Arrivals from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February.

Quarantine hotels are expected to be set up near airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

02:12 - New Quarantine Rules

Under the new rule, travellers from the countries part of the “red list” including returning British nationals

would need to be isolated in government-provided accommodation, such as hotels, for a period of ten days.

Travellers would have to pay for their own stay in isolation.

Travellers arriving from other countries, not on the hotel "red list", are still able to enter the UK, but with many restrictions.

They will not need to enter a government facility for quarantine, but they are expected to self-isolate for ten days upon arrival, unless using the UK's ‘test to release' program.

All travellers must show a negative Covid-19 test result to enter the country, as well as fill out a passenger locator form.

03:02 - UK Mandatory Quarantine Hotels: Why now?

The UK had decided to introduce a new quarantine rule in order to prevent the further spread of Covid-19 and its variants.

Countries that are being subjected to quarantine measures have high cases numbers and have reported case of the more-transmissible variants of coronavirus.

The quarantine order has been issued to ensure these variants don’t find their way into the country, as the nation struggles to deal with its own virulent variant.

The UK's travel corridors, which allowed quarantine-free entry from a list of countries considered relatively safe, were suspended last month amid fears about the risks from new Covid-19 mutations.


04:12 - Countries on the Red List

If you have been in or through any of the identified countries in the last 10 days, you will be refused entry to the UK.

British and Irish Nationals, or third country nationals with residence rights in the UK will be able to enter the UK.

The countries are:
* Angola * Argentina * Bolivia
* Botswana * Brazil * Burundi
* Cape Verde * Chile * Colombia
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Ecuador * Eswatini
* French Guiana * Guyana
* Lesotho * Malawi
* Mauritius * Mozambique
* Namibia * Panama
* Paraguay * Peru * Rwanda
* Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
* Seychelles * South Africa * Suriname
* Tanzania * United Arab Emirates
* Uruguay * Venezuela
* Zambia * Zimbabwe

To view the updated list, check out the link on our blog for the official government website

The list has been in contention as calls are made to extend hotel quarantine to all arrivals and not just on the "red list".

The government is expected to set out further details next week on how passengers will be able to book into the designated hotels.

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