Britain's newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus variants from derailing a fast-moving vaccination drive that has delivered more than 15 million shots in ten weeks.
Passengers arriving at London's Heathrow Airport were escorted by security guards to buses that took them to nearby hotels.
Britain has given a first dose of coronavirus vaccine to almost a quarter of its population, but health officials are concerned that vaccines may not work as well on some new strains of the virus, including one first identified in South Africa.
UK journalist Rob Liddle joined Mike Hosking to discuss UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hesitancy to move the nation out of lockdown and the UK's vaccine roll-out.
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