Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is said to be in favour of allowing travellers to complete their quarantine at home.
, are against the idea, the newspaper reports.
People continue to fly in via Heathrow, but the ongoing quarantine restrictions for international travel from a red list of countries means some end up in hotels are set to be removed at 4am on Monday. When asked on Times Radio whether this could be introduced before the half-term holidays begin on October 22, he said: ‘That’s the goal.’Announcing the new changes in travel coming into force next week, Mr Shapps tweeted: ‘From Monday I’ll be cutting 47 destinations from our red list -including South Africa, with just 7 countries and territories remaining – all others will be included in the ‘rest of world’ category.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said that the hotel quarantine programme is kept under regular review.
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