UK starts Australian-style hotel quarantine to fight coronavirus variants. Will it work?

Nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic began, the United Kingdom has introduced an Australian-style hotel quarantine system in an effort to stop the spread of newly identified variants of COVID-19.

Travellers returning to England from 33 countries deemed high risk will have to quarantine in government-sanctioned hotels for 10 days, while in Scotland all arrivals will have to isolate in quarantine hotels.

A similar scheme has been in place in Australia since last year.

So how much of the scheme will replicate Australia’s model? Here’s what we know.

What is the UK looking at doing?

The mandatory hotel quarantine scheme expands on a travel ban that is already in…