Man says he's ill but gets on Tube after arriving in UK despite quarantine

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Landing at Heathrow from Switzerland, the man said no one had told him about the UK's new 14-day quarantine rule.

An unwell traveller who said he needed to go to hospital after landing at Heathrow Airport claims he had no idea about the UK’s new 14-day quarantine rule.

The mask-clad man said he had ‘other issues right now’ and that he wanted to go to the hospital. As he announced the new system which came into effect on Monday, Border Force director general Paul Lincoln said the Government agency would be ramping up communications to make sure everyone travelling to the UK was aware of the changes.After his conversation, Mr Stew explained what had just happened on Twitter.

A spokesman for the organisation said the bulk of the responsibility for overseeing this new policy fell on health authorities and that police have a ‘limited role’.One border source called the new system a ‘complete farce’

 

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I actually can’t even begin to put into words ...

This is 2020: 'No one told me not to take stuff from shop so I just took it anyway constable. Not my fault right?'

He knows he’s sick. He knows there’s a pandemic. Yet he still makes the decision to travel. Blames everyone else. Take responsibility yourself as well.

and he is now the most avoided man in the UK

A government of words only

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