As per the recent News, India is added to travel red list by UK Government. The rule will come effect on Friday 23 April 2021 8:30 PM India Time.
From 23 April 2021, most people who have traveled from India in the last 10 days will be refused entry.
The exemption to this is as follows:
- British or Irish passport Holders, or people with UK residence rights (Visa Holders), will be allowed but must quarantine in government approved list of hotels for 10 days.
- UK Residence Rights: Indian Students who already holds Visa or will granted visa in upcoming days.
This decision has come in effect because of a briefing document drawn up by the UK officials at Public Health England.
It shows that between 25 March and 7 April 2021, 3345 arrivals from India were registered in UK border travel data, out of which 161 or 4.8% tested positive for COVID- 19 after a PCR test.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/booking-and-staying-in-a-quarantine-hotel-when-you-arrive-in-england
Before you travel you must:
What you need to do before you arrive in England
- take a corona virus (COVID-19) test and get a negative result during the 3 days before you travel. You must take the test in the 3 days before the service on which you will arrive in England departs. For example, if you travel directly to England on Friday, you must take the test on the Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
- book a managed quarantine hotel where you will quarantine. Your quarantine package will include your managed quarantine hotel, quarantine transport and your travel test package for COVID-19 tests on day 2 and day 8 of quarantine
- complete a passenger locator form (PLF)with details of where you will quarantine when you arrive. You must provide a quarantine package booking reference number to complete your passenger locator form.
You will need to agree to pay for, and book, a quarantine package before you complete your passenger locator form and board your return journey to the UK.
The package includes the costs of transport from the port of arrival to the designated hotel, food, accommodation, security, other essential services and testing.
How much you’ll need to pay
| Rate | Additional day rate (for more than 10 days of quarantine) | |
| Rate for 1 adult in 1 room for 10 days (11 nights) | £1,750 | £152 |
| Additional rate for 1 adult (or child over 12) | £650 | £41 |
| Additional rate for a child aged 5–12 | £325 | £12 |
Where you can arrive
If you’re required to quarantine in a quarantine hotel you can only arrive in England at certain ports of entry. Currently these are:
- Heathrow Airport
- Gatwick Airport
- London City Airport
- Birmingham Airport
- Farnborough Airport
Other ports of entry may be added in the future.
If you have a pre-existing booking to a different port of entry on or after the 15 February it’s your responsibility to change it to one of the ports of entry specified above. After 15 February carriers will not be permitted to carry anyone who has been in a red list country in the previous 10 days to any other port of entry than those specified.
Arriving and transport to a managed quarantine hotel
When you arrive in England you will need to provide your completed passenger locator form to Border Force officers alongside your passport and negative COVID-19 test result.
You will be escorted through the airport with other passengers who need to quarantine at a managed quarantine hotel. Your ‘quarantine package’ includes transport to your quarantine hotel (and back to the airport at the end of your quarantine to reconnect to your travel plans). Please follow signs and instructions for the Managed Quarantine Service.
If you have a car parked at the airport, you will need to extend your parking period and pay the additional charges. If you need assistance with this, you can ask for that once you get to your hotel.
Everyone will need to wear face coverings at all times (unless you’re exempt).
A member of staff will make a note of where everyone is sitting on the bus, so that if someone later tests positive for coronavirus NHS Test and Trace will be able to identify who has been in close contact.
You must only travel to your managed quarantine hotel by the transport specified in your quarantine package and not by public or private transport.
If you are a child arriving to attend boarding school and you are unaccompanied, separate arrangements will apply.
At the end of the quarantine period you will be transported to the airport you were collected from when you arrived in England.
Managed quarantine in a hotel: what it is
Everyone who arrives into England must quarantine for 10 full days from the point of their arrival. The day of arrival in England will be treated as day zero.
To stop the spread of potentially harmful variants into the UK, more stringent measures are in place for people who have travelled from or passed through a country on the list where travel to the UK is banned (the ‘red list’) in the last 10 days before arrival.
From 15 February, you must quarantine in a managed quarantine hotel if you’ve travelled from or passed through a country on the list where travel to the UK is banned.
Quarantining in a managed quarantine hotel
When you arrive at the managed quarantine hotel you will be required to quarantine in your room for 10 full days. The managed quarantine hotel will provide your meals.
