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Some UK citizens are avoiding entering hotel quarantine by taking a holiday in Turkey before heading home.
Travel companies are marketing “quarantine packages” to British nationals flying to the UK from red-list countries, particularly Pakistan, with a 10-day detour via Turkey.
One travel agency told
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Other operators suggest passengers should “have a vacation” in Turkey, which does not impose quarantine on most travellers and is not on the UK’s red list, before making the onward journey to Britain.
Travellers arriving from red-list countries are required to pay £1,750 ($2,430) to isolate in a UK hotel for 10 days.
Hotel quarantine only applies if the traveller has been in a red list country in the past 10 days.