Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care
Fund and offer a COVID-19 tracking wristband as alternative to hotel quarantine
Closed
1,156 signatures
What the petition asks
The Government should fund a covid-19 tracking wristband that passengers coming from red list countries can choose to use during compulsory home quarantine instead of hotel quarantine. This wristband would notify authorities if a person violates the rules of isolation period.
Such a wristband could save people from going into expensive hotel quarantine. It is unfair to expect travellers to pay to re-enter their country when they could not have known that they would need to when they left. The mandatory expensive hotel quarantine of people’s own cost, regardless of whether they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19, or whether they have tested positive for COVID-19, violates their fundamental right to liberty and right to respect for private and family life.
Timeline
| 9 Jun 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 9 Dec 2021 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
1,156
Status
Closed
Department
Department of Health and Social Care
Opened
9 Jun 2021
Closed
9 Dec 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.