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NewsColony British Airways owner’s boss Willie Walsh warns against two week quarantine Airlines and tour operators have reacted with fury to Government plans to force all travellers to the UK to be placed in quarantine for a fortnight – including British citizens returning from holiday. The move – first revealed last month by The Mail on Sunday – is intended to prevent a second peak of the Covid-19 virus sweeping the country later this year. But companies have described it as an effective ‘ban’ on foreign holidays because most people would not be prepared to pay the price of having to self-isolate for 14 days after every overseas trip. The measures, expected to be introduced early next month, would require travellers to provide an address at which they will stay for the two weeks. Transgressors caught through spot checks would be fined up to £1,000 or deported, under powers introduced by the Coronavirus Act. The emergency legislation gives immigration officials the power to remov...