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Although the UK Government has published a list of countries that will not require a quarantine when travellers return, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has yet to decide for Scotland. Scottish airports are calling on the SNP leader to reveal coronavirus air bridge countries soon or she will potentially put more jobs in the Scottish airline industry at risk. Good Morning Britain ( GMB) correspondent Juliet Dunlop reported on the “quarantine quarrel” to ITV, adding that despite Ms Sturgeon’s threat to draw up a separate quarantine regime for Scotland, not a single spot check had been carried out on travellers obliged to stay at home under existing rules.

Scottish Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, claimed no checks had been carried out because her officials didn’t have access to a passenger information database.

The Home Office has now shot back, saying that this is simply not the case and that it is misleading and inaccurate.

Ms Dunlop told GMB: “Really the upshot of all of this has been that Scottish airports are angry, very angry.

“So angry, in fact, that the bosses of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Airports have banded together to say that they are argued that this blanket quarantine policy was always unworkable and unenforceable, and this simply underlines that.”

She continued: “But sadly they claim it has already cost thousands of UK jobs.

“Now Westminster and Holyrood are already at loggerheads over the issue of air bridges.

“Nicola Sturgeon has still not decided which countries Scotland can form air bridges with.

“She’s been accused of dithering, delaying and leaving Scottish holidaymakers in limbo, and putting more jobs potentially at risk.”

The ITV correspondent added: “For her part, she claims the Scottish Government simply needs more data before it can make that announcement.

“Certainly we’ve already had a battle over the border, now this quarantine quarrel is showing no signs of going away.”

The British Government was expected to announce the review into the quarantine system last week, but it has failed to appear.

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Britons are now allowed to go on holiday to 75 countries without needing to quarantine on their return to the UK.

The Government effectively ditched its air bridge plans and simply ended the coronavirus quarantine rules for those arriving from 75 countries so that people can go on holiday.

The UK lifted a ban on non-essential travel to nearly all EU destinations and British territories.

A traffic light system will decide which nations are safe to travel to, with those classed as green or amber available to holidaymakers.

Britons holidaying in “green” or “amber” countries will not have to self-isolate for 14 days when they get back.

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