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Confusion for travellers over UK quarantine rules

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Travellers to the UK faced what the transport minister said was confusion as Wales and Scotland imposed a quarantine on arrivals from Portugal but England and Northern Ireland held back from restrictions.

Wales will quarantine travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, French Polynesia and the Greek islands of Mykonos, Zakynthos, Lesbos, Paros, Antiparos and Crete from today.

Scotland will do the same for travellers from Portugal and French Polynesia from tomorrow. England and Northern Ireland will not.  "I do realise it creates confusion for people not to have a single rule (across the UK) but we do have this devolved approach throughout the United Kingdom and I can only be responsible for the English part of that," Transport Secretary

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