Quarantine

I discovered that the word quarantine comes from the french for 40 - quarante. Maybe because in the old days they guessed 40 days was safer.
Now they use a different word for 14 days - quatorzaine . From 14 - quatorze.
I agree with EllanVannin that no-one should have been allowed to be repatriated from the start.

Now the clever Johnson Government are introducing 14 day quarantine from June the 8th.
Why June 8th, no one knows.

Don’t worry River Group 4 or Serco will have been given the lucrative monitoring contact so all will be well.

Without tender.

Has France closed its Shengen borders? If not that's the whole of Europe excluded!

And given that travellers from France are excluded from quarantining .....

Don’t worry River Group 4 or Serco will have been given the lucrative monitoring contact so all will be well.

As I understand things, they are not planning on quarantine, as in when passengers were taken to Arrow Park hospital, but self-isolation at a given address.

Whether there will be any attempt to monitor compliance - I doubt it.

...and will there be a 'guard ' outside every house,apartment etc...

It's because of that, that we've got all this now----(shakes head )

Nobody should have been repatriated from a Covid stricken country from the start.

It would have been impossible to quarantine the numbers returning, it would have been much more effective to pay them to stay where they were, particularly those in the low infection rated countries like NZ and OZ.

At last quarantine will be required, at least for a few months until health screening or certification is agreed at both ends of any international travel.

We didn’t do it presumably because we have approx 350,000 people arriving in the U.K. on flights, plus ferry passengers each day.
Impossible to quarantine them all.
We should have closed our borders for all except ex pats who could have been quarantined, as there would have been a much smaller number.
But we didn’t, but now we might, talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.