The UK Government has insisted that Scotland’s quarantine rules would only apply once passengers arriving in England travelled north of the border.
All international arrivals in Scotland from overseas must spend ten days in a quarantine hotel, whereas in England the requirement only extends to travellers from “red list” countries.
Asked whether travellers bound for Scotland but arriving in England would be quarantined, the official spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “If travellers arrive in England from a red list country and wish to continue to Scotland they will first need to complete ten days in managed quarantine in England.
“If a traveller arrives in England from an amber list country and wishes to continue to Scotland they will be able to do so but will then fall under Scottish quarantine rules on entry.”
Unless exempt, any passenger flying directly into Scotland will have to pay £1750 to quarantine in a room at one of six designated hotels in a bid to avoid importation of the virus.
But transport secretary Michael Matheson said on Sunday a “loophole” allowing overseas travellers to avoid hotel quarantine still exists which could “potentially undermine the public health approach here in Scotland”.
And First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said at Monday’s daily coronavirus briefing that the Scottish Government decided to adopt stricter rules “because we think it is important to go as far as we can.”
She said: “It is of course up to every government to make their own judgment and take their own decisions. But at the moment anyone who lands at an airport elsewhere in the UK and then travels on to Scotland won’t be put into a hotel for managed isolation if their flight is from a destination outside the UK’s list of high-risk countries.”
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