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Workers at risk in rushed Covid hotel rollout
Unions call for talks over staff safety fears
Zari Tadayon looks from her hotel room window at members of the media outside the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, one of the new Government managed quarantine facilities

BORIS JOHNSON’S rushed Covid-19 hotel quarantine plans are putting workers and the country at risk, GMB warned today.

The Prime Minister’s scheme could allow more contagious strains of the virus to spread because security and hotel staff have been left without proper protections, the union said.

The new rules require British and Irish nationals and UK residents who return from 33 “red list” countries, such as Portugal, Brazil and South Africa, to spend 10 days in government-sanctioned hotels.

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