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The home secretary, Priti Patel, has been told it is “troubling” she is unable to provide an assessment of the number of travellers entering the UK with coronavirus as quarantine measures are eased.
Appearing before the home affairs select committee, Patel said the advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) continued to suggest that the number of cases brought in from overseas was around 0.5% of all cases in the UK.
“It’s quite troubling that none of you seem able to explain just an assessment of the number of people likely to be coming into the country with coronavirus or a proportion of the 50000.”
That’s the end of this week’s PMQs.
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