UK 14-day arrivals quarantine – the FACTS, from the official documentation

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• Andrew says:

  11 May11 May 18:12

  No10 has confirmed that it DOES apply to rail and ferry – it was sloppy wording in his speech saying “by air”, but was later clarified.

• ChrisBCN says:

  11 May11 May 18:18

  Thanks for this article.

  I’m not sure that the document helps a great deal though!

• Riku says:

  11 May11 May 18:19

  Where is the implication that it does not apply to UK citizens returning to the UK? These are precisely the kind of people who should be quarantined. If it’s “international travellers” then that implies to me ANYONE who’s travelled across an international border.
  Living in Helsinki we barred entry to non-citizens/residents about SIX WEEKS AGO, Finns returning were told to self isolate for two weeks and they closed the airport train station and restricted the airport bus route to domestic passengers or airport staff only. And in the UK they are planning to implement a much weaker form of this in three weeks time ??

  • Craig says:

    11 May11 May 18:24

    A very lazy wording; is it ‘travellers returning from international destinations’ or ‘travelling international citizens’?

    • Josh says:

      11 May11 May 18:32

      International arrivals to me, means anyone who is returning from outside the UK (except the exemptions).

      • Blindman says:

        11 May11 May 18:42

        +1

• Samuel says:

  11 May11 May 18:19

  So if I take a coach from Brussels (passing through France), do I get exempted? Are non-citizen residents allowed to return?

  • abc says:

    11 May11 May 18:30

    Surely non-citizen residents are allowed to return, they’ll just need to quarantine.

• abc says:

  11 May11 May 18:23

  I don’t think that France being exempt means the whole Schengen area will be exempt: The UK would want to have reciprocity. It makes sense for France and the UK to agree an exception, as they are (kind of) neighbors and have a similar level of infection. Maybe they’ll add Belgium as well given the direct train connection. I highly doubt Germany (who already require everyone to quarantine, without exceptions, though there is discussion of allowing exception for some neighbouring countries such as Austria) – and certainly not countries with hardly any infections, such as Greece – will want people from the UK to come in without quarantine until infections decrease majorly, which won’t be for several months.

  • Shacker says:

    11 May11 May 21:13

    I think Greece will be more open to having tourists visit sooner rather than later

• Novice says:

  11 May11 May 18:27

  This is too vague hence my belief we are led by a buffoon and I sincerely apologise to the primate species I am borrowing the name from. 😂

  • sayling says:

    11 May11 May 18:35

    Are you really expecting hard dates and hard measures to be announced now? Dates are very much dependent on two things – resources to implement changes required and the rate of infection/ death.

    As the latter is largely determined by the actions of the public, how can dates be given now?

    • G-bit says:

      11 May11 May 18:45

      How has it taken so long to get to this stage. Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Finland have had this in place for weeks, alongside contact tracing apps and testing for anyone with symptoms. These things, still at the ideas stage in the UK, seem to have been implemented in other countries weeks and months ago. As a consequence their citizens and economies have been better protecting.

      • Phillip says:

        11 May11 May 20:07

        Because when the government decided that herd immunity was no longer their preferred option, the community infection rates were so high, any imported cases were not going to make a difference! Now that the rate has decreased, imported cases will make a difference!

        • Simon says:

          11 May11 May 21:23

          Someone talking sense. Few people actually have any positive suggestions. Not just on travel but across the board. Do people think the Scientists and advisors have not discussed all of this at length. And some? Or are we all coming up with ideas that they never considered?? Seriously I don’t doubt mistakes have been made, some we don’t even know yet. But I for one am glad I’m not making the decisions. Every decision is criticised by some group or other.

        • Novice says:

          11 May11 May 22:38

          😂 @ Lockdown larry

          So true.

    • Blindman says:

      11 May11 May 18:49

      It depends on the Muppets who have been breaking the rules, so not a fixed date.

      If infection increases then the next stage won’t be coming soons”

      • BrightonReader says:

        11 May11 May 22:44

        you mean WHEN infection increases.

        There is no ‘if’ about it.

  • Darren says:

    11 May11 May 18:55

    Buffoon has been used for sometime and has nothing to do with a primate

• tom says:

  11 May11 May 18:37

  Lol.. Everybody living in England know they will have ZERO checks on people isolating. What they gonna do? Visit my residence- ring my doorbell and if not answer break a window to check if im inside? Maybe im sleeping, upstairs or in garden and not answering door. Then what?

  They don’t even have enough police to keep the regular safety or to check traffic etc. They def don’t have people to go by all travellers homes to see what they are upto 😀

  Farce!

  • Simon says:

    11 May11 May 21:25

    What would you suggest as a viable alternative? It’s easy to criticise, much harder to come up with a credible workable alternative.

    • Novice says:

      11 May11 May 22:35

      Are you for real?

      If you’re so sure that the govt is making all decisions based on data etc then I ask you the supposed expert; why did the government redact entire pages of documents from Sage? I’m a scientific and logical person. I want to see the reports.

      We are truly being led by liars who are trying to save their **** because they know they haven’t got a clue.

      At this point I think my 5 yrs old niece might have come up with better proposals than the crap bojo is dishing out.

      If he’s truly following science, why redact the scientists’ advice docs? I’m miffed about not seeing it.

    • Novice says:

      11 May11 May 22:36

      Btw my rant is for @Simon as I’m sure you’ve gathered. 😂

• Andrew says:

  11 May11 May 18:47

  Boris will be giving a further statement and answering public questions at 7pm on BBC1 – stay tuned for more!

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