Scots workers stranded in quarantine hotel 'feel like prisoners' due to 'ridiculous' lockdown loophole
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dailyrecord.co.ukquarantine hotel because of a “ridiculous loophole” in lockdown rules. They say they feel "like prisoners".They arrived back on Friday, March 19, hours before exemption rules that would have allowed them to join their families were updated at 4am on Saturday, March 20.About 25 workers returning from working off Angola were forced into isolation, while colleagues from England were allowed to continue home due to a “ridiculous loophole”.
While the exemption was applied by the UK Government on Friday, it did not come into force in Scotland until 4am on Saturday.
The men’s plight was blamed on the Scottish Government “moving the goalposts” amid new calls for discrepancies in exemption rules for offshore workers to be clarified.Grant Bowman, 46,.
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