More than £400 million (€480m) of UK taxpayer money was spent on quarantine hotels last year, but an official audit has shed doubt on the success of the policy.
Only 2 per cent of guests from ‘red list’ countries tested positive for COVID-19 between February and December 2021, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO). The public spending watchdog also found that as many as 42 per cent of people broke quarantine rules, despite a private firm being paid £144 million (€173m) to make checks.
Quarantine hotels – where passengers arriving from the riskiest countries had to spend 11 nights – already had a notorious reputation in
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