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  UK shuts travel corridors and requires negative Covid tests to enter

  

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  All foreign arrivals will also have to quarantine in toughening of measures in response to new strainsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has announced a dramatic tightening of the UK’s borders, with all international arrivals to be forced to quarantine as well as demonstrate they have had a negative Covid test.After months of criticism of the government’s lax border policies, which Labour claimed were “costing lives”, the prime minister said he was tightening the rules to prevent new variants of the virus reaching the UK and safeguard the vaccination programme. Continue reading...

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  Coronavirus live news: UK variant hits New Zealand as hotel quarantine begins in England

  

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  UK immigration officials 'have had no information' about hotel quarantine

  

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  Border staff not briefed about even basics of Covid protection system starting on Monday, says unionCoronavirus...

  Border staff not briefed about even basics of Covid protection system starting on Monday, says unionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageImmigration officials expected to enforce a mandatory quarantine intended to protect the UK from new coronavirus variants have not been briefed on even the basics about how the system will work, little more than 48 hours before it begins, the Guardian has...

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  How quarantine rules work and what UK government is planning

  

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  Analysis: Arrivals from high-risk countries will have to pay to isolate in a hotel under Boris...

  Analysis: Arrivals from high-risk countries will have to pay to isolate in a hotel under Boris Johnson’s proposalsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith new hotel quarantine measures for international arrivals from high-risk countries due to be introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19, focus falls on how they will work.Here, we look at what the rules are now and what’s being done...

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