Coronavirus: What difference will the quarantine hotels make?

Simon Calder answers your questions on the latest travel restrictions and gives advice on holiday insurance

Winging it? Many details remain undecided (Reuters)

Q What do you make of the new hotel quarantine rules and the other restrictions that the government has put in place? Will they have much effect?

Rob L

A I will be better placed to answer your question when the government has actually said exactly what it will be doing – and when – to try to limit the risk from coronavirus imported into the UK. We learnt that airlines, ferry companies and train operators have yet another task to fulfil on pain of a heavy fine. They will need to assess whether British residents leaving the UK are legally entitled to travel abroad, by dint of one of the few exemptions – mainly for work, education, medical treatment and essential family reasons.