What Happens to Liars Who Fly Into England? They are Not Kidding About COVID Travel

   There's always someone that decides to lie and try to get away with something, even if it
puts the lives of others in jeopardy. Those people are selfish. Those are the people that need to get caught and pay a penalty, and England is onto them. In fact, any traveler from a hot COVID country must quarantine in appointed hotel when they fly to England. Most do. For the ones that haven't or didn't, they're being found and paying a LARGE monetary fine, too.  People who lie on their forms also face quite a term (of years) in prison, too. England is NOT messing around! Excellent.

 Here's the story from BBC News

SOURCE:  BBC News: Feb 16, 2021

• Source – BBC News

Four air passengers have each been fined £10,000 (that's $13,906.00 U.S. dollars)   for failing to declare they had travelled from a "red-list" country, West Midlands Police has said.

They were stopped at border control by officials and were not able to leave Birmingham Airport.

Under new rules, arrivals in England have to quarantine in hotels, if within the last 10 days they have been in a country deemed a high Covid risk.

The "red list" of 33 countries includes Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.

The regulations came into effect on Monday, Feb 15th and the four passengers had been fined by midday, a senior officer told a meeting of the West Midlands Strategic Policing and Crime Board.

Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said that in the same timeframe, the airport received six passengers who did declare travel from a red-list country, who were taken to a quarantine hotel.

But of the offenders he added: "There are some people who have attempted to hide their routes but that's not worked out."

A police spokesperson said the fines were issued by Border Force. Birmingham Airport is one of five in England where people requiring hotel quarantine can enter the UK.

Those who fail to self-isolate as required face fines of £5,000 to £10,000, while anyone who lies on their passenger locator form about having been in a country on the red list faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

The rules aim to stop coronavirus variants entering the UK.