UK to give details on 14-day quarantine for international arrivals

The UK is set to introduce a quarantine period of 14 days for people arriving in the UK, including returning Britons on Friday, according to local media reports.

All the arrivals will be asked to provide information on where they will be staying during the self-quarantine period, as health and border officials carrying out spot checks, and those who breach the quarantine will be fined 1,000 pounds (around 1,217 U.S. dollars).

Earlier in May, the British and French governments said they would exempt French arrivals from the quarantine order, but the UK later denied the exemption.

Only people arriving from the Irish Republic would be exempt from the quarantine along with those in a number of specific jobs, such as freight drivers and research on the coronavirus, the UK government said.

(With input from Reuters)