We re already seeing why hotel quarantine is our most bonkers Covid policy yet
No other country in the world has copied Australia s quarantine strategy at this late stage of the pandemic – with good reason
18 February 2021 • 3:18pm
A passenger enters Heathrow s Holiday Inn: We’re not even building a fort – merely erecting a few rickety gates
Credit: Steve Parsons/PA
Staggeringly, the Government has gone and done it again. It has implemented a Covid policy that causes the absolute maximum damage for the teeniest, tiniest possible gain. There have been many examples of this (lockdown as a whole, I’d argue) but surely our new hotel quarantine scheme takes the biscuit.
BBC News
By Rachel Schraer
image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A new variant of the virus causing Covid-19, first spotted in Kent, could already be circulating - or have originated from - outside the UK.
But it was spotted here because of the strength of the UK s surveillance system, scientists have said.
The Covid-19 Genomics Consortium (Cog-UK) has tracked the genetic history of more than 150,000 samples of Sars-Cov-2 virus.
That equates to about half the world s genetic sequencing of coronavirus.
Prof Sharon Peacock, head of Cog-UK, said the UK s high level of genomic surveillance meant if you re going to find something anywhere, you re going to find it probably here first .
BBC News
By Rachel Schraer
image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A new variant of the virus causing Covid-19, first spotted in Kent, could already be circulating - or have originated from - outside the UK.
But it was spotted here because of the strength of the UK s surveillance system, scientists have said.
The Covid-19 Genomics Consortium (Cog-UK) has tracked the genetic history of more than 150,000 samples of Sars-Cov-2 virus.
That equates to about half the world s genetic sequencing of coronavirus.
Prof Sharon Peacock, head of Cog-UK, said the UK s high level of genomic surveillance meant if you re going to find something anywhere, you re going to find it probably here first .