This quarantine method of insisting arrivals stay for a period of time in hotels before being allowed to mix with the rest of society has been used in many nations for many months. Australia has been using this control method since the start of the pandemic last year. In Australia, travellers are charged up to £2,500 to stay in a hotel room for between 14 and 24 days.
The UK may even use facial-recognition technology to ensure people do not leave their rooms.
The Government wants to lockdown UK borders in a bid to stop the new strain of the virus from spreading.
Scientists are yet to discover if this new mutant coronavirus strain is immune to current vaccines.
day Times reported that Government ministers last week requested a study of New Zealand’s “directed isolation” policy.
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In Poland, the pictures of those quarantining are cross-referenced using facial-recognition technology and GPS data.
If a quarantining individual must send a photograph back to police within 20 minutes or they will be visited.
A senior government source said this new proposal would only apply to people arriving in the country.
They said it would not apply to those told to isolate that are already in the country.
The news comes as new coronavirus variants spread across the globe.
Health secretary Matt Hancock has suggested a temporary ban on all international travel for four weeks.
This is in a bid to halt the new coronavirus variants from getting a foothold in the UK.
