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Thousands of British holidaymakers in Mexico are scrambling to get home after travel restrictions changed at short notice.
From 4am on Sunday, those returning home from Mexico will have to quarantine in a designated hotel for ten days.
The cost of a flight back to Britain was being sold for between £2,000 and £4,000 yesterday as many tried to beat the deadline.
Pictured: Claudia Rattray talks to BBC via video alongside her daughters. Claudia and her two daughters arrived in Mexico city today to learn the country had been upgraded to the red list
There are between 5,000 and 6,000 British holidaymakers in Mexico currently.
In a further blow, the cost of hotel quarantine will increase from August 12, with the price for single adult travellers rising from £1,750 to £2,285 and a second adult paying £1,430 – more than double the current rate of £650.
One couple have been forced to cut their honeymoon from two weeks to two days.
Student Joe Coward, 29, said: ‘We feel... incredibly sad and frustrated that the time that should’ve been spent enjoying being newlyweds has
