The UK is quarantining American visitors – unless you’re a rich movie star

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update out of the UK is that, while visitors from many countries including the US will be required to quarantine themselves for 14 days to ensure they don't have the virus, some new exceptions to that rule have been announced.
• Some Hollywood actors and film crews are being exempted from the quarantine requirement, in order to give a boost to the UK's film industry.
• A UK politicians who announced this news on Twitter over the weekend was strongly criticized by Twitter users in response, who complained that rich movie actors don't necessarily need a helping hand right now.

British politician Oliver Dowden took to Twitter on Sunday to rave that the UK had helpfully enacted exemptions to its rules mandating that visitors quarantine themselves, providing an exception for film stars like Tom Cruise so that filmmakers can resume "making the best blockbusters again." The exemptions were enacted, because as the coronavirus pandemic has lingered in the UK (and sickened more than 286,000 people there, according to the latest stats from Johns Hopkins University) the government decided to require visitors from certain countries including the US to quarantine themselves for 14 days to make sure they are coronavirus-free.

Exceptions to this quarantine rule, as Dowden explained on Twitter over the weekend, now include rich Hollywood movie stars who are apparently impervious to the virus.

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