Not unexpectedly, the hotel quarantine system for travellers from high risk countries is having teething problems.
The rules apply to arrivals at four airports, Heathrow, Stansted, Luton and Birmingham.
According to Heathrow’s chief, those passengers are not being separated and are mingling with others before going off to spend ten days in government provided, security-guarded hotels. He also said there were not enough hotels for the numbers arriving.
At Birmingham airport four arrivals have each been fined £10,000 for lying about where they had come from.
With countries introducing their own quarantine rules and with different red listed destinations - the UK has over 30 - there should be co-operation and co-ordination to make it simpler and safer.
Scotland’s rules are different from England’s and there are no international flights from Cardiff airport.
There should also be uniformity when holiday travel is allowed again; including perhaps certificates proving vaccination or other means of minimising the spread of the virus, now being considered.
Those thinking of going abroad on holiday this summer face an adventure or an ideal.
I am not even thinking about it.
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