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A traveller holds up a 'help' sign at a window during mandatory hotel quarantine in a Radisson Blu hotel. AFP
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A woman accompanied by a boy and girl stand and gesture out of a window from inside the Radisson Blu hotel at Heathrow Airport in west London where they are undertaking mandatory hotel quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic. AFP
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A couple gesture to the media from their room at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, near Heathrow Airport. Getty Images
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A woman quarantined at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, holds up a sign in protest. AP Photo
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The Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport, where some travellers are being placed in quarantine. Reuters
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A passenger with a child leaves arrives at the Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport. Reuters
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A woman holds up a sign at the window at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, where she is quarantined. AP Photo
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A person holds a sign from a window of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Reuters
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Mohammed Mostafa and Mohamed Noor take their daily exercise, accompanied by a security guard, outside the Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport. Reuters
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Passengers arriving in the UK from a 'red list' country are escorted through Heathrow Airport on to a coach for transfer to a quarantine hotel. Getty Images
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A woman who has recently arrived from Chile, looks through the window of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel where she is quarantined. AP Photo
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A woman waves through the window of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel. AP Photo
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A person holds a sign from a window of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Reuters
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A traveller holds up a 'help' sign at a window during mandatory hotel quarantine in a Radisson Blu hotel. AFP
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A woman accompanied by a boy and girl stand and gesture out of a window from inside the Radisson Blu hotel at Heathrow Airport in west London where they are undertaking mandatory hotel quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic. AFP
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A couple gesture to the media from their room at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, near Heathrow Airport. Getty Images
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A woman quarantined at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, holds up a sign in protest. AP Photo
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The Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport, where some travellers are being placed in quarantine. Reuters
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A passenger with a child leaves arrives at the Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport. Reuters
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A woman holds up a sign at the window at the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel, where she is quarantined. AP Photo
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A person holds a sign from a window of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Reuters
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Mohammed Mostafa and Mohamed Noor take their daily exercise, accompanied by a security guard, outside the Holiday Inn, near Heathrow Airport. Reuters
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Passengers arriving in the UK from a 'red list' country are escorted through Heathrow Airport on to a coach for transfer to a quarantine hotel. Getty Images
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A woman who has recently arrived from Chile, looks through the window of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel where she is quarantined. AP Photo
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A woman waves through the window of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel. AP Photo
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A person holds a sign from a window of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Reuters
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A traveller holds up a 'help' sign at a window during mandatory hotel quarantine in a Radisson Blu hotel. AFP
UK hotel quarantine guests allowed outside to smoke despite risk of Covid outbreak
Travellers say they are unhappy with Britain’s ‘utterly incompetent’ approach
Brodie Owen
17 February, 2021
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