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Leading Australian epidemiologist compares UK’s hotel quarantine system to a sieve with too many holes https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/australian-epidemiologist-compares-hotel-quarantine-sieve-holes-b920891.html Our system has numerous shortcomings. Maybe it is just as a tick box exercise...

OK 10 years in jail for the 6-7% of arrivals coming from red countries. Nice headline Priti... But, what's the penalty for the other 93% of arrival failing to isolate and get tests? Will there be a fully traceable system in place for these arrivals?

The defences just aren't good enough Once you've passed immigration at Heathrow that's it you're free to go, that's the last you will ever hear from anyone Jump to the Heathrow Express into London and unless you've got a nosey neighbour you're unlikely to get caught

I don't think you even need to pass a PCR, a lateral flow test will suffice - not great for picking up asymptomatic cases I'm not saying we should try for zero covid but we need to get thing down to low level to allow track and trace to actually work

Obviously freight will need to be given an exemption but as things stand they don't even need a Covid test, even if they've driven from Portugal the RED country. Only 1 country in the current top 10 for infections is on the list of 33...

So next week incoming passengers from 33 countries will need to quarantine into hotels for 10 days. This covers around only 7% of the daily 21,000 entering the country. The mutant Covid strains are already everywhere and people will try and transit to other countries to evade quarantines...