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.
All international arrivals in Scotland have to self-isolate for 10 days in a government-approved quarantine hotel.
But in England the requirement only applies to travellers arriving from 33 red list countries which have recorded significant outbreaks of coronavirus variants.
The Scottish government is concerned that people could fly into England before then heading to Scotland, avoiding the tougher hotel quarantine rules north of the border.
As a result, Ms Sturgeon is urging Mr Johnson to adopt the same measures as Scotland or at the very least to work with Holyrood to put in place a system to stop people circumventing the restrictions.
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Authorities in Britain have expressed concern over a low rate of vaccination take-up among healthcare workers that could hamper efforts to tackle coronavirus.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that around 80 per cent of NHS staff had
been vaccinated, a rate lower than other priority groups, while a
study showed signs of vaccine hesitancy among doctors and nurses at hospitals in Leicester, central England.
An A&E consultant told
The National that many doctors may have been “put off” by the UK’s decision to delay second doses by up to 12 weeks.
The study, which analysed more than 19,000 staff members at hospitals at Leicester NHS Trust hospitals, found that 12,278 (64.5 per cent) of all workers had received a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. However, just 57.8 per cent of doctors and 62.5 per cent of nurses