The UK has said it would bring in tighter border controls from Monday 15 February to help guard against new variants of Covid-19, requiring hotel quarantine in England for those arriving from the most high-risk countries. "We're setting up a new system of hotel quarantine for UK and Irish residents who have been in red list countries in the last ten days," Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.
Arrivals will have to quarantine in assigned hotels, which they will book before departure and pay £1,750 (approximately €1,900) per traveller.
More details will be published on Thursday, but Mr Hancock said security would be present at the hotels. The British government said it had contracted 16 hotels for an initial 4,600 rooms and it would secure