UK to quarantine visitors from nations with high Covid-19 risk
Travelers from Brazil and South Africa, and neighbouring countries will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels to quarantine
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is preparing to force travelers from countries where there is a high risk of Covid-19 to go into quarantine for 10 days after arriving in Britain, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
Travelers from Brazil and South Africa, and neighbouring countries, will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels to quarantine, under plans being discussed by UK ministers, the Daily Mail said.
Johnson favoured a more targeted approach than making all air passengers go into quarantine, said the report, which added that the quarantine decision would be taken on Monday.
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Britain has recorded more than 3.5 million Covid-19 infections - the fifth-highest in the world - and nearly 96,000 deaths.
The country has Britain vaccinated 478,248 people in the 24 hours to Saturday with a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, a daily record according to government figures, as the total death toll from the virus nears the 100,000 mark, standing at 97,329.
Government data showed that the total number of people who have had a first dose of the vaccine now stands at 5.86 million.
