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Travellers in Egypt and Bahrain are racing to get back to Britain to avoid hotel quarantine after the two countries were added to the UK’s red list.
From 4am on Tuesday, anyone coming from either Egypt or Bahrain, as well as five other countries - Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad & Tobago – will be required to pay £1,750 ($2,471) to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the moves followed rising concern about imported cases of coronavirus.
Soliman Travel, which has been providing Egyptian travel services in the UK for 40 years, said airlines added more seats as people scrambled to get back to the UK before the deadline.