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By Sue Mitchell and Sarah McDermott
BBC News
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Women quarantining in UK hotels will now have female guards, when possible, after allegations of sexual harassment.
The Department of Health and Social Care made the change after a BBC report in which women said one male guard had mimed having sex in a lift, and another had asked for a hug.
If female guards are unavailable, women should be escorted by two male guards.
Sixteen women have reported harassment to the BBC and some say complaints have been ignored or disbelieved.
Sarah, a 23-year-old medical student from Manchester who says she was taken by a guard on a terrifying walk along deserted hotel corridors when she was quarantining in the Radisson Red Heathrow in April, welcomes the move to provide female guards for lone female travellers.
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