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According to the Immigration Services Union (ISU), which represents many of the Home Office’s UK immigration border staff have not been briefed on how a new hotel quarantine system, expected to begin today, will work. The new hotel quarantine system is being introduced to protect the UK from new COVID-19 variants.
The ISU claims that UK immigration officials have no idea if they will be expected to check to arrivals who have not properly declared their status or when and how those required to quarantine will be taken to a hotel.
General secretary of the ISU, Lucy Moreton, said: “They’ve had no information at all. They can watch the media, read statements from ministers, but that’s pretty much it.”
An overseas traveller today said he is happy to do whatever it takes as new quarantine measures came into force for Scotland.
People flying directly into a Scottish airport on international flights have to self-isolate for 10 days in a quarantine hotel room, under new regulations that took effect this morning.
Unless exempt, a passenger will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine in a room at one of six designated hotels in a bid to avoid new virus variants arriving into the country.
Chun Yong arrived at Edinburgh Airport this morning with his eight-year-old daughter Kiernan, having caught a connecting flight at Dublin from the USA.