Post by Grim Leaker on Sept 13, 2021 10:11:45 GMT
Nearly a third of people arriving in England and Northern Ireland as the coronavirus Delta variant took off may have broken quarantine rules.
More than 300,000 cases were passed to investigators between March and May, according to figures seen by the BBC.
The government was not able to say how many of these were found to have broken the rules or could not be traced.
The Home Office says it aims to pay home visits to all travellers suspected of not following the rules.
But Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds says the figures obtained by the BBC "confirm our worst fears" about the government's "lax border policy".
BBC
More than 300,000 cases were passed to investigators between March and May, according to figures seen by the BBC.
The government was not able to say how many of these were found to have broken the rules or could not be traced.
The Home Office says it aims to pay home visits to all travellers suspected of not following the rules.
But Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds says the figures obtained by the BBC "confirm our worst fears" about the government's "lax border policy".
BBC
