BRITAIN’S controversial 14-day quarantine policy is “useless” and should be ditched as soon as possible, a top virus expert warned today. Minsters are under massive pressure to di…
Arrivals coming to the UK have to stay home for two weeksIn a withering take-down, professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the policy has been introduced monthsOn the BBC's Andrew Marr Show this morning he blasted: “It’s useless and should go.”
The PM is expected to announce in the next fortnight that the measures will be dropped, and replaced with other rules travellers must follow to stay safe and go on holiday. Police are carrying out spot checks to make sure people are complying with the quarantine, but no one has yet been told to cough up.
Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary has said that he is "actively working on" sorting out air bridges with some countries - but ministers have been tight lipped about which those are.
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