Hotel firms ‘kept in the dark’ about govt quarantine plans

Rob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels in the UK, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that they had not “not heard anything” from the government about the proposed details of the quarantine hotel regime.

No date has yet been set for when the government plans to start using quarantine hotels.

Prime minister Boris Johnson’s statement on Wednesday (3 February) about an announcement on hotel quarantines being made by health secretary Matt Hancock on Thursday (4 February) was later contradicted by Downing Street, who said Johnson had been “misinformed” and an announcement will be made “in due course”.