From a mental point of view the thought of hotel quarantine was frightening. "But South Africa went red so we couldn’t come back without being imprisoned in a hotel. Ivan and Jayne then tried to plot a way home in April but still faced the prospect of hotel quarantine, leading to their seven-country marathon by air and taxi. But it got to that date and we couldn’t fly as would still have had to hotel quarantine. Whereas in South Africa people are told ‘these are the risks’, everybody wears masks.

Source: Daily Mirror July 10, 2021 05:07 UTC