Quarantine hotels fully booked: Christmas officially ruined for Brits in red list country

The UK has banned travel from 10 southern African countries and reintroduced PCR testing for all arrivals.

Travellers arriving from South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia will have to pay £2,235 to quarantine at a Government-managed hotel for 10 days.

Only British and Irish citizens will be allowed into the UK from the new red list countries.

The new rules also state that anyone arriving from abroad is required to take a day 2 PCR test and self-isolate until they get a negative result.

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source: express.co.uk