expected to pay £1,750 in advance to cover the costs of their isolation and testing. Six hotels near Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports - with a total capacity of 1,300 - will be used to quarantine passengers for a period of 10 days at a time as of February 15.The rooms must be booked and paid for via a central UK Government online portal, due to go live on Thursday.Meanwhile Nicola Sturgeon and health secretary Jeane Freeman apologised to pensioners forced to queue in freezing temperatures only to miss vaccine appointments in a double-booking shambles.
The senior SNP government figures said sorry after reports an elderly women collapsed with suspected hypothermia in the cold in Lochgelly, Fife.