COVID-19 travel: Expect 'knock on the door' when you return from amber countries, Priti Patel warns
The home secretary says officials will check if people who've been to countries on the government's amber list are self-isolating.
People who return from countries on the government's travel amber list should expect a "knock on the door", the home secretary has warned.
Priti Patel has told the Daily Mail newspaper enforcement is being stepped up to make sure people who visit countries such as France, Italy and Spain obey the rules on quarantining.
Currently, anyone who returns from a country on the amber list - which is the vast majority of countries around the world - has to self-isolate for 10 days and take two COVID tests.
For a considerable time this has felt more like civil defence than a response to the pandemic. A permanent state of alert against largely imaginary threats.
5 comments:
It all depends how you arrive.
Come by wee rubber dingy and coast guard, then a knock on your provided door is most unlikely.
Unless it is to see if more free stuff is wanted.
"Expect a knock on the door..."
I doubt if this is a remotely credible threat. I don't know the numbers involved, but this would cost a fortune to implement, and the simplest of cost benefit analyses would tell the Government that.
I guess a few Daily Mail stories about people being caught will be enough to scare people. The really worrying thing is that the population of the UK has no means of blowing a collective raspberry, and some don't even want to.
They could always use TV detector vans I guess!
But Scrobs, surely they will not all be transvestites!
Anon - good point. We treat uninvited guests too well.
Sam - all they have to do is concentrate on a few regular Twitter users. One chap in a sinister looking van could probably create the desired impression.
Scrobs - don't let that idea out. Covid detector vans playing sinister music as they tour the streets - I wouldn't put it past them.
Ed - could be a side-effect though.
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