From staff having sex with guests, to irons being used for toasties, there are plenty of pitfalls to running Covid quarantine hotels
The government is doing more than opening quarantine hotels for international travellers from Covid-19 variant hotspots – it is opening up a world of pain for itself, a dripping tap of bad news likely to keep ministers awake at night.
From 15 February all arrivals from more than 30 countries, including South Africa and Brazil, will be confined to a quarantine hotel for 11 nights before being released, assuming they test negative for Covid-19. That is the easy part.
