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1.06pm GMT

Here are the full quotes from Matt Hancock, the health secretary, with full details of the new rules for people arriving in the UK.

The hotel quarantine regulations

We're setting up a new system of hotel quarantine for UK and Irish residents who've been in red list countries in the last 10 days. In short, this means that any returning residents from these countries will have to quarantine in an assigned hotel room for 10 days from the time of arrival.

Before they travel, they'll have to book through an online platform and pay for a quarantine package costing 1,750 for an individual travelling alone which includes the hotel, transport and testing. This booking system will go live on Thursday when we'll also publish the full detailed guidance.

We're strengthening testing. All passengers are already required to take a pre-departure test and cannot travel to this country if [the test] is positive.

From Monday, all international arrivals, whether under home quarantine or hotel quarantine, will be required by law to take further PCR tests on day two and day eight of that quarantine.

People who flout these rules are putting us all at risk.

Passenger carriers will have a duty in law to make sure that passengers have signed up for these new arrangements before they travel, and will be fined if they don't, and we will be putting in place tough fines for people who don't comply.

12.56pm GMT

Hancock says fines will be used to ensure people comply.

People who arrive and fail to take a test will be subject to a 1,000 fine, and a 2,000 fine if they fail to take a second test, he says.

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