Bad news for South African travellers – UK ‘red list’ travel ban stays in place

[Drifter]

To see the costs of the mandatory quarantine hotel, (for those who have resident rights in the UK, or are British or Irish - no entry for anyone else from a red list country, anyway), and feel the tears sting, scroll down to
"How to book a quarantine package" and "How much you'll need to pay"

Travel to England from another country during coronavirus (COVID-19)

Check the COVID-19 rules for travel to England, including whether you need to take any tests.

www.gov.uk

FML ZAR 75K for wife and I.

 

[Sinbad]

FML ZAR 75K for wife and I.

We did ours separately, so 2x full price. Fortunately before the increase - but it's such crap value for money I have no idea how they justified increasing it.,

 

[MirageF1]

UK is the only country with such ridiculous entry requirements for nationals. To have to quarantine at a government listed hotel says it all.
Scandalous.


No doubt a great money making scheme to assist the now largely diminished government coffers from their own huge Covid and Brexit spending/losses at our expense!

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Add a sprinkle of ...

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The loons latching onto more lunacy .......

at least you got the attention of C4 by making it racist

 

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[konfab]

The cope from people who thought their vaccine passport will set them free is delicious.

 

[Gozado]

UK is the only country with such ridiculous entry requirements for nationals. To have to quarantine at a government listed hotel says it all.
Scandalous.

Are you sure of this? When I searched

quarantine government hotels​

results of similar schemes came up from a number of different countries. Or am I missing something?

 

[MirageF1]

Are you sure of this? When I searched

quarantine government hotels​

results of similar schemes came up from a number of different countries. Or am I missing something?

At £2250 a pop almost certain...
Even the Germans have called the UK's scheme scandalous.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Interesting from a Covid-19 analyst in the UK:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441311275623989251

Seems Ministers (i.e. politicians) have the absolute final say on who goes on/off the red list and not the Joint Biosecurity Centre.

 

[ImpossibleAstronaut]

Is this the country that put SA on the red list? If anything it should be the other way around.

Given Corona is pretty much everywhere, why block travel anywhere anymore, except for possibly New Zealand.

What's their problem with the Beta varient ( or is it the Delta varient)? Isn't that varient already there?

 

[zoozi]

The cheek...
If they don't trust our vaccination process then suggest some method to verify authenticity.

 

[Dave]

At £2250 a pop almost certain...
Even the Germans have called the UK's scheme scandalous.

Australia isn’t that different.

The quarantine fee for an individual is $2,500 for the full 14 day period.

A family rate of $5,000 applies for family groups of two or more people in shared accommodation.

People in mandatory supervised quarantine will also be subject to testing before exiting quarantine. If you refuse a test, there will be 10 days added to your quarantine time.

If you are required to undertake an additional 10 days of quarantine, a further fee will be charged of $1,750 for an individual or $3,500 for a family.

Mandatory supervised quarantine and fees

How much you will have to pay for quarantine costs.

coronavirus.nt.gov.au

 

[MirageF1]

Ok so Aussies also up to their own effed up money making schemes, but they, like the UK are exception rather than the rule these days.

No reason why a citizen or national of a country should be treated this way.
They should be given option at least to quarantine at their own residence, family or relatives. Totally f8cked up.

Screw these governments and their personal agendas.
It's certainly been most inconvenient for me having wanted to return for a while yet unable to afford the cost at this point.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Hotel quarantine could face axe after Ireland ditches policy

Hotel quarantine faces the axe amid growing pressure on the Government to follow Ireland’s decision to ditch the policy.

The Department for Transport (DfT) is understood to back the move which would end the requirement for travellers from red-list countries to self-isolate in government-approved hotels at a cost of up to £2,285 per person.

The travel industry is also pressing for the policy to be ditched following Ireland's announcement on Saturday that it was removing the final six countries from its red list and freeing the last 50 travellers from the self-isolation in hotels from Sunday.

“We can't forget that we're still an outlier on arrivals testing and hotel quarantine, and the Irish decision should hopefully embolden ministers to move to home quarantine as quickly as possible for red-list passengers,” said a senior travel industry source.

“Hotel quarantine was very much a policy of its time but things have moved on.”

Good comment:

How can people be "locked up" without trial simply for taking a holiday? Wrong on all counts and needs to go,

It should have never been implemented in the first place.

 

[AdrianH]

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The cheek...
If they don't trust our vaccination process then suggest some method to verify authenticity.

I don't trust anything the SA governmet says or does, why should this be any different?

 

[rvZA]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1438991435697639427

Perhaps the countries on the sh*tlist are placebo-controlled groups and getting salt water and pepper injected. This may well be the case, since we are still on the red list of many western countries. This is all that would explain this.

 

[C4Cat]

Perhaps the countries on the sh*tlist are placebo-controlled groups and getting salt water and pepper injected. This may well be the case, since we are still on the red list of many western countries. This is all that would explain this.

Really? That's all you could think of to explain this?

 

[rvZA]

Really? That's all you could think of to explain this?

Yes.

Being vaccinates in full and considered 'unvaccinated' by the UK means they know something we don't. Placebo-controlled group.

 

[Dave]

Perhaps the countries on the sh*tlist are placebo-controlled groups and getting salt water and pepper injected. This may well be the case, since we are still on the red list of many western countries. This is all that would explain this.

You really should pull yourself back out of the rabbit hole, you’re almost at a point of no return.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

SA govt holds talks with UK on travel, vaccine policies | Business

SA's continued inclusion on the UK’s so-called red list has sparked outrage, as it bars foreigners outright and forces British citizens to undergo hotel quarantine on arrival.

www.news24.com