Britain to discuss tighter travel restrictions due to COVID-19: Report

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British ministers are to discuss on Monday further tightening travel restrictions, the BBC reported on Saturday, adding that people arriving in ...

23 Jan 2021 06:30PMLONDON: British ministers are to discuss on Monday further tightening travel restrictions, the BBC reported on Saturday, adding that people arriving in the country could be required to quarantine in hotels.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a news conference on Friday that the UK may need to implement further measures to protect its borders from new variants of COVID-19.Britain's current restrictions ban most international travel while new rules introduced earlier in January require a negative coronavirus test before departure for most people arriving, as well as a period of quarantine.

Amid growing worries about new COVID-19 variants, critics of Britain's current quarantine policy say it is not sufficiently enforced.

 

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