> Healthy young illegal immigrants have been given preferential treatment in receiving the coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly and vulnerable native Britons, an investigation has found.
> Migrants who came to the United Kingdom illegally and are now being housed at the taxpayers’ expense at the four-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in London have received free coronavirus vaccinations, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
> One illegal Sudanese migrant, 20-year-old Abdul, who crossed in a boat from the safe and wealthy France seven months ago, told the newspaper: “I was given the vaccination yesterday at the hotel to stop me catching Covid. There are 400 migrants living here and we nearly all had it. No-one I know refused.”
> A group of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants said that on Thursday a “mass vaccination” operation was held at the hotel.
> A 27-year-old Sudanese national said: “The vaccinations were given to us whatever our age.”
> “We didn’t have to pay. We were told to queue up for them at the hotel. None of us want to catch the coronavirus,” he said.
> “This was the first vaccination and I don’t know which company made it. We will have another one nearer the summertime,” the migrant added.
> The illegal migrants at the hotel are also not being subjected to the strict measures placed on people arriving in the country legitimately from a so-called ‘red list’ of 33 countries, who are required to quarantine themselves in inferior hotels at their own expense with heavy fines for those who break the rules.
> The government has also announced that people who lie about their travel history could face up to ten years in prison.
> The migrants, meanwhile, are free to roam into nearby West Drayton to shop for food and so on despite the lockdown.
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