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Variants of Covid-19: UK imposes 10-day quarantine on all arrivals

2021-01-18T12:50:08.224Z


In addition to tightening the conditions for entry into their territory, the British are also stepping up their vaccination campaign.


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Faced with a very tense health situation for several weeks, the United Kingdom on Monday tightened the conditions for entry into its territory.

To fight against these variants (British, South African ...), the country has in fact since imposed from this Monday 3 hours, in addition to the obligation of a negative test, a quarantine of 10 days for all arrivals from abroad.

The exemptions for the least affected countries are thus suspended.

According to The Sunday Times, the government is even considering checking in arrivals at hotels at their own expense, or even using geolocation and facial recognition.

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At the same time, and for the same purpose, the United Kingdom is also expanding its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus to those over 70 years old.

The government has set itself the objective of vaccinating 15 million priority people by mid-February: the over 70s, residents of retirement homes and their caregivers, as well as front-line health personnel. .

"140 vaccines per minute"

While vaccination has hitherto targeted retirement homes, those over 80 and medical personnel, vaccination centers now have the necessary supplies and capacity to start vaccinating “those over 70 and over. extremely vulnerable people, ”the Ministry of Health announced in a statement.

Struck by a variant of the virus up to 70% more contagious according to health authorities, the United Kingdom deplores the heaviest toll in Europe with more than 89,000 deaths.

Accused since the start of the crisis of having confined too late, deconfined too quickly, ignored the advice of scientists, the government of conservative Boris Johnson is concentrating its efforts on mass vaccination to get out of the confinements in place.

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The Prime Minister welcomed that "140 vaccines per minute" are administered in the country, his Minister of Health Matt Hancock stressing that half of those over 80 have already been vaccinated.

Since the campaign began on December 8, more than 3.8 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine in the UK, the first western country to start the process.

Source: leparis

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