Travellers in Egypt and Bahrain scramble to avoid hotel quarantine in UK

  • Date: 04-Jun-2021
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Tourism
  • Country:Egypt
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Travellers in Egypt and Bahrain scramble to avoid hotel quarantine in UK

Travellers in Egypt and Bahrain are racing to get back to Britain to avoid hotel quarantine after the two countries were added to the UK's red list.

From 4am on Tuesday, anyone coming from either Egypt or Bahrain, as well as five other countries - Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad & Tobago – will be required to pay £1,750 ($2,471) to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.

The decision was announced alongside the removal of Portugal from the green list on to the amber list.