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Comis residents recall 'claustrophobic' quarantine experience

Manx Newscast

Friday, 19 July 2024 - 24 minutes

It may be hard to believe, but we're more than four years on from Covid.

However, for the Manx residents who were made to quarantine in the Comis Hotel in April and May 2020 the process of being refunded for their time there is just now getting underway.

It was a recommendation from the Kate Brunner review into the Isle of Man Government's handling of the Covid pandemic.  

It cost people wanting to be repatriated, whilst the borders were closed, hundreds of pounds to use the pathway back home. 

Husband and Wife, Dan and Cat, have been speaking to Lewis Foster about the two weeks they spent cooped up in their hotel room with their 9-month-old baby:

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