Britain's Hotel Quarantine Booking Procedure Crashes Soon after Start

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new system for scheduling a place in its mandatory hotel quarantine scheme was on Thursday taken offline shortly after it introduced.

The federal government claimed on Tuesday it will call for passengers arriving from international locations where by worrying coronavirus variants are spreading to spend for 10 days of quarantine in inns, though rule-breakers will face weighty fines or jail phrases, under tighter constraints from subsequent week.

The new journey policies increase to constraints that currently ban Britons from travelling overseas for holiday seasons. The government reported the much better steps had been essential to prevent new variants of the virus from thwarting Britain’s speedy vaccination programme.

Having said that, the booking portal for the quarantine scheme was taken out just hours right after it launched, which a government web site claimed was thanks to “a minor specialized problem”.

Britain’s health section did not have an rapid comment.

The opposition Labour Party’s house affairs spokesman Nick Thomas-Symonds identified as on the government to urgently resolve the portal.

“It is particularly worrying that even the confined hotel quarantine scheduling procedure is exhibiting signs of failing from the outset,” he stated.

(Reporting by James Davey Modifying by Toby Chopra)