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Passengers arrive at Heathrow.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock recently announced new border enforcement measures due to concerns about vaccine-resistant variants of Covid-19 entering the UK and undermining the vaccination process, which is being successfully rolled out.
Passengers returning from 33 red-list countries where more-transferable variants are thought to be spreading will be required to quarantine in Government-approved accommodation.
In Scotland, the edict applies to every incoming passenger.
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Ewan Gurr has noted one commentator said Covid travel lies could see people given harsher sentences than for murder.
Anyone in England caught lying about returning from a red-list nation could face 10 years in prison, which is longer than sentences awarded for sexual assaults and gun offences. One podcast commentator said: “You’d get less for killing your granny.”
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