Analysis: Why the Government introduced quarantine despite their own scientists' doubts

It was in late March that it first emerged Priti Patel was pressing for quarantine to restrict arrivals coming to the UK from high-risk countries like Iran, the US and China but it was not until late last month that it was officially announced. Home Office figures show 18.1 million people entered the UK between January 1 and end of March without any health checks, including people from coronavirus hotspot countries. Of these, just 273 were quarantined and as many as 20,000 infected people may ha