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A hotel quarantine system targeted at arrivals from high-risk countries will be announced by the home secretary, Priti Patel, on Wednesday, after ministers met to sign off the more targeted approach.
Boris Johnson rejected calls at Tuesday evening’s meeting for a blanket policy in favour of imposing hotel quarantine on British citizens from a limited number of countries such as South Africa and Brazil.
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Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.
In just over a year, 100 million people have been infected with Covid-19. At least 2,153,477 have died.
