Two week quaranteen for travellers ariving in the UK

[malumbu]

Can anyone explain this? As most of mainland Europe is ahead of us in ending the lockdown with lower rates of infection it is more likely that the UK will export coronavirus.

If it is a case of higher risk when you are actually traveling, then perhaps we should implement quarantine every time we go to the shops.

I'm surprised there is not more (or any) backlash from the masses and travel industry. Greece and Spain planning to reopen their resorts is rubbing salt into this wound.

It really cannot be some isolationist Brexit related thing. Surely.

The easy solution is health monitoring by the airlines, track and trace will also be fairly easy. Ferries can probably manage social isolation. Then a country by country arrangement or dare I say even with the EU as a whole

Perhaps there is a simple solution, perhaps Cummings has distracted up from more interest.

[uncleglen]

Quaranteens- is that the new name for youths who are 13-19 at this time?

[KidKruger]

?Can anyone explain this? As most of mainland Europe is ahead of us in ending the lockdown with lower rates of infection it is more likely that the UK will export coronavirus?

Sorry, not with you quite on this.

How could the likelihood of the UK exporting coronavirus depend on whether other countries have a lower (or higher) rate of infection in the UK?

They are entirely separate issues.

[fishbiscuits]

I think your assertion is logically flawed, malumbu. We can absolutely reduce the spread with a quarantine program. The only problem I have with the policy is that it should have been introduced months ago.

Greece and Spain have already flattened the infection rate fairly succesfully. And the summer tourism season is vitally important to their economies.

Sorry to stray from the narrative, but it has nothing really to do with Brexit or Dominic Cummings.

[seenbeen]

I wouldn't believe the data being put out there personally

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c

[JohnL]

I think UK travellers will be the last to be allowed into Spain or Greece.

[malumbu]

I'm still a bit lost. Is the reason for quarantine (or quaranteen for those between 13 and 19) because of the dangers of catching Covid-19 when actually traveling - plane and ferry? If so shouldn't those using public transport in this country for any length of time also go into quarantine?

If I go to France there is a lower level of coronavirus in the country, therefore I am less likely to get it from actually being in that country then when in the UK (OK there will be regional variations). Dependent on controls of course but

Closing borders/bringing in quarantine at the height of transmission, particularly for those where there is a low rate of infection, makes great sense. During the recovery phase much less so.

[edcam]

I take malumbu's point. This is a massive case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.