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The government is risking lives by being too slow to implement a hotel quarantine plan, Labour has claimed.
Boris Johnson confirmed in January UK residents returning from Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in hotels, but a timetable has not yet been set.
Labour has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to urge her to end the delays and get on with it.
But ministers insist there is not a delay and they are working on the scheme at pace .
The prime minister had said there would be an announcement on hotel quarantine on Thursday but Downing Street later said he was misinformed .
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The government is under growing pressure to announce details of its quarantine plans, after hotels revealed no discussions had taken place.
Boris Johnson confirmed in January UK residents returning from Covid hotspots would have to quarantine in hotels.
But a timetable for the new measure has still not been confirmed, with Labour saying the plans are in chaos .
The PM had said there would be an announcement on Thursday, but No 10 later said he had been misinformed .
Home Secretary Priti Patel had also told the Commons that more detail would be provided to MPs this week.
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UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February, the government has confirmed.
Hotel owners will be asked to provide rooms for more than 1,000 new people every day, documents suggest.
Passengers will have to stay in their rooms for 10 nights, with security guards accompanying if they go outside.
Labour called the measures too little, too late to deal properly with new overseas strains of Covid. It is beyond comprehension that these measures won t even start until 15 February, said shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.
Quarantine hotels are expected to be set up near airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
NIGHTCLUB operators are being treated as if we re the anti-Christ according to the former owner of the Ballroom in Dunfermline. Paul Smith, managing director of Castle Leisure Group, said the sector had been ignored and given no guidance as to how or when they could re-open. And he fears the lack of assistance will mean many nightspots may be forced to shut for good. Mr Smith, who is also a member of the Fife Licensing Forum, said: Some of our trade associations reckon that up to 70 per cent of hospitality businesses may not recover from the pandemic. If it s bleak for hospitality in general, it s even bleaker for the nightclubs.
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The future of a country hotel in Norfolk has been secured after its former management went under during the pandemic.
The company behind the Lord Nelson in Burnham Market filed for insolvency in November, throwing the future of the four-star bed and breakfast and pub into question.
However owners of the site, the Stonegate Group, have confirmed the 17th century pub will reopen after lockdown.
A spokeswoman for the Stonegate Group, said: “The incumbent publicans of The Lord Nelson have been in situ since last autumn, when they took over the lease of the site.