By Fines of up to £10,000 and a 10 year jail sentence for anyone breaking travel rules.
Matt Hancock states ‘We must strengthen our defences further’.
Anyone breaking travel rules could now face extensive fines and time in jail as tougher Covid measure are put into place.
The health secretary has given details of how people will be tested for Coronavirus once they arrive in the UK.
All travellers entering the UK will be required to take two tests while quarantining in an attempt to prevent new Covid variants spreading.
‘From Monday, all international arrivals… will be required by law to take further PCR tests on day two and day eight of that quarantine,’ he says.
- £1,000 fine for any international arrival who fails to take a mandatory coronavirus test
- £2,000 fine for failing to take a second test and quarantine is automatically extended to 14 days
- Fines of between £5,000 and £10,000 for failing to quarantine in a designated hotel
- Anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years
UK arrivals from “red list countries” must pay £1,750 for their own hotel quarantine, transport and testing, Hancock has announced.
He also says the strategy for tackling the virus has four parts. To lower case numbers, enhance contact tracing, surge testing and genomic sequencing, keep vaccinating and protection at the border “to increase our security”.
