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Last minute Border Force guidance for ‘red list’ arrivals a ‘disgrace’
A passenger arrives by coach at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, one of the new government-run quarantine facilities

A UNION representing Border Force staff has slammed the government’s last-minute guidance on how they should enact new rules for travellers arriving from “red list” countries.

PCS called it a “disgrace” that border staff were only sent guidance from the Home Office about how to carry out the new rules hours before they came into effect.

Since Monday, travellers have been required to stay in quarantine hotels — at the cost of £1,750 for 11 nights — if they have been in one of 33 countries at high risk of coronavirus variants in the previous 10 days.

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