Tory MP says quarantine is too late as 'too many people have died'

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Speaking on GMB, Caroline Nokes said the decision to enforce a 14-day period of self-isolation for travellers entering the country has come ‘at the wrong time’.

The new rules, introduced this week, apply to tourists as well as British nationals returning from abroad.

But the process was described as an ‘utter farce’ on the first day of its rollout with ‘thousands’ of Brits rushing to get home before they came into effect causing a huge queue at the Calais border. Having arrived from Switzerland on Monday he said no one told him that foreign visitors to Britain now have to stay in one place for two weeks and register their address with border officials.Ms Nokes also told Good Morning Britain that she was disappointmented that a Public Health England review that found BAME people are more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, made no recommendations on how to protect those communities.

A Public Health England review found that BAME people are more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people

 

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