COVID-19: 'Up to 10 years in prison' if travellers break rules - Hancock

The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced new rules for international travellers arriving in England.

Anyone who fails to tell the truth on a passenger locator form faces up to 10 years in prison.

The new rules for England include:

• Hotel quarantine for UK travellers from 33 "red list" countries for 10 days in an assigned hotel room. They must book a quarantine package which is £1,750 for an individual travelling alone, including the room and transport. This booking system will go live on Thursday.

• For all arrivals: PCR tests will need to be taken on day two and day eight of quarantine - these will need to be booked through the government's online portal before they travel.

A prison sentence and fines up to £10,000 for anyone ignoring the new rules:

• £1,000 fine will be given to any international arrival who doesn't take a PCR test. This will rise to £2,000 for those who don't take a second test.

• There is a £5,000 fine, rising to £10,000, for red list arrivals who don't go to hotel to quarantine.

• Anyone who lies on a passenger locator form and tries to hide the fact they have been to red list country in the previous 10 days, faces up to 10 years in prison.

[richardhart]

Will this apply to politicians and celebrities?

[paulburns]

Celebs and footballers go to jail. For 10 years. I'd watch that.

[mrb]

I have very dark thoughts whenever I hear this man talk.

[leodesalis]

When pedos and rapists get less prison time then people trying to leave their houses or hotels

[paulhoskin]

The worst variant by far is Mr hancock

[youarewhatyouare]

He should get 50 years for human rights abuses

[daniel-jamesireland.]

[" Anyone who lies gets 10 years. Is that for each lie? Matt is already up to 3, 000 years in jail for the lies he has told."]

[drewsturgeon]

2 weeks to flatten the curv to a decade in jail!

We're not even a year into this....

[jdizzle]

What the hell is happening to this world.

[xBurko]

Does this punishment apply for Government officials?

[plainkady]

Is this even legal??? Time to get rid of the Covid Act

[clivebonneywell]

Unbelievable I'm listening to this in total disbelief in what I'm hearing

[ClearNoun]

Why do knife criminals who take a life only get 4 years?

[barringtonlevy]

This won't apply to me
If I leave the country I won't be coming back!

[PVFC]

And how many years in prison for all of the politicians that have lied to us?

[danielrainsbury]

All MP's must be tracked and traced. Laws shoved though by criminals are no void.

[antoniebrooks]

Who else dislikes this man thoroughly?

[craigy]

So that means majority of celebrities should be in jail majority of the government should be in jail 1 rule for us 1 rule for them

[zora]

I’m so so glad to see your comments here. I’ve almost lost hope talking to some of the people that’ve lost the ability to think for themselves.

[rllegend]

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