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Inside the quarantine hotels: Guest reveals there are no exercise or cigarette breaks, no MINI-BARS, staff leave food outside door then run away while guards patrol floors to stop people escaping
A Brazilian couple among the first passengers arriving in Britain forced to spend ten days in a hotel quarantine today revealed they must stay in their room without even being allowed out for exercise or a cigarette. Wagner Araujo, 43, a removal man, who has lived in London for 20 years, arrived at Heathrow Airport today via Madrid with his wife Elaine (left), 40, following a trip to Brazil where they went to visit a sick relative. They were escorted onto a coach at the airport to be taken to the nearby Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel (top centre, in-room food menu pictured), where they must remain in quarantine for ten days after the UK Government brought in the new rules today. In a diary written for MailOnline, he revealed hotel staff told them they would only be allowed to leave the site for a medical emergency - and they were escorted up to their room by a security guard. Also pictured (right): A mocked-up graphic of some of the additions available for guests at the Renaissance Hotel (bottom left) near Heathrow, which is also accepting those going into quarantine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9261933/Mother-landed-Heathrow-two-children.html
A Brazilian couple among the first passengers arriving in Britain forced to spend ten days in a hotel quarantine today revealed they must stay in their room without even being allowed out for exercise or a cigarette. Wagner Araujo, 43, a removal man, who has lived in London for 20 years, arrived at Heathrow Airport today via Madrid with his wife Elaine (left), 40, following a trip to Brazil where they went to visit a sick relative. They were escorted onto a coach at the airport to be taken to the nearby Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel (top centre, in-room food menu pictured), where they must remain in quarantine for ten days after the UK Government brought in the new rules today. In a diary written for MailOnline, he revealed hotel staff told them they would only be allowed to leave the site for a medical emergency - and they were escorted up to their room by a security guard. Also pictured (right): A mocked-up graphic of some of the additions available for guests at the Renaissance Hotel (bottom left) near Heathrow, which is also accepting those going into quarantine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9261933/Mother-landed-Heathrow-two-children.html
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Travellers were seen being dropped off at the four-star Radisson Blu Edwardian near Heathrow after arriving from a variety of red list countries.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9261439/Welcome-Hotel-Quarantine-Heathrow-arrivals-land.html
The chaos experienced at the border at Heathrow has been partly caused by sickness, with 138 of around 300 agents at Heathrow off work last Friday - while just 44 were ill with coronavirus.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9262703/Nearly-half-Border-Force-Heathrow-week-inflexible-bubbles-blamed-chaos.html
Four passengers have been fined £10,000 after failing to state they had come from a coronavirus "red list" country within the previous 10 days.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-fines-birmingham-151602264.html
Passengers shut in hotel quarantine after arriving from the UK are reaching desperate levels (top right), posting notes (left) at their windows begging to leave their accommodation. All arrivals in England from 33 banned countries must book government-approved accommodation at an initial cost of £1,750 under a scheme that came into force on Monday. But the strain of being stuck inside seemed to be taking its toll on some of the enforced hotel residents (middle inset). One held aloft a handwritten note at his window, bemoaning: 'I am stressed here, no mobile phone, no access to my bank details to sort bills, my Covid-10 results. Why can't quarantine at home?' Another woman held up her boxed up meal at the glass (lower right), with a thoroughly disgusted look on her face. The hotel quarantine initiative is intended to stop dangerous Covid variants being imported into the UK and there are no exemptions for illness of people who have suffered bereavement. Upon arrival, travellers must show Border Force evidence of a negative PCR or antigen test result taken within three days of leaving the previous country. Quarantining guests are then tested on days two and eight using PCR tests self-administered in their own rooms. They can leave after they have received a negative result and quarantined for 10 days.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9269683/Midwife-returning-UK-says-forced-isolate-London.html
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EXCLUSIVE: A British father-of-one tried to break out of a quarantine hotel near London Heathrow Airport this morning and has gone on hunger strike after claiming he is being held there 'under duress', MailOnline can reveal. Anthony Pium (right), 30, from Leyton, East London, was involved in an angry confrontation with security guards as he tried to force his way out of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel (centre) 'to get some fresh air'. An exclusive video filmed by Mr Pium shows him being forced back into the hotel (left). Security guards surrounded him and pushed him back as he asked to be allowed out for some air and repeatedly told them to social distance. It comes after new rules introduced on Monday mean people arriving in England must quarantine in a hotel for ten days at a cost of £1,750 if they have been to a country with a high Covid risk, such as Portugal or Brazil. But Mr Pium today told MailOnline of his anguish of been detained at Heathrow last night, after he flew in from Sao Paulo, where he was working for his travel agency Sky Fly Travel.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9273895/Hotel-quarantine-guest-gives-thumbs-room-window.html
A traveller returning from Thailand has been forced to spend £1,750 on hotel quarantine after being given the wrong advice from his airline.
Simon Kenway, from Blackpool, flew into Heathrow on Sunday evening after spending two weeks, plus a quarantine period, in Thailand.
Thailand is not on the “red list” of banned countries, so all returning passengers should quarantine at home.
However, when Mr Kenway arrived in the UK he was pulled from the “green list” queue and told he had to pay for quarantine in a hotel, because he had taken a connecting flight in Dubai — contrary to what he said Emirates had told him.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/traveller-forced-spend-1-750-105915599.html
Antonio Caraballo, 44, from Marchmont, Edinburgh, was forced to pay £2,400 to check into the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in his home city (right) to quarantine with his son Sami (pictured together, left) who travelled unaccompanied from Helsinki, Finland, on Saturday. The family had believed Sami would be allowed to quarantine at his father's home.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9292307/Boy-10-forced-quarantine-flying-Edinburgh-father.html
A traveller returning from Thailand has been forced to spend £1,750 on hotel quarantine after being given the wrong advice from his airline.
Simon Kenway, from Blackpool, flew into Heathrow on Sunday evening after spending two weeks, plus a quarantine period, in Thailand.
Thailand is not on the 'red list' of banned countries, so all returning passengers should quarantine at home.
However, when Mr Kenway arrived in the UK he was pulled from the 'green list' queue and told he had to pay for quarantine in a hotel, because he had taken a connecting flight in Dubai - contrary to what he said Emirates had told him.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/traveller-from-thailand-is-forced-into-1-750-isolation/ar-BB1dW71p