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UK's COVID-19 quarantine hotels receive first travellers as government fights new variants

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UK's COVID-19 quarantine hotels receive first travellers as government fights new variants

UK's COVID-19 quarantine hotels receive first travellers as government fights new variants

Simon Calder is travel editor with The Independent.

He spent Sunday night at one of Heathrow's quarantine hotels to see what passengers can expect.


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