Residents forced to quarantine in a hotel during Covid had a 'traumatic experience'

Residents who were shut out of the Island and then quarantined in a hotel during the pandemic went through a 'traumatic experience.'

That's one of the findings in the Independent Covid Review, which also states those quarantining at the Comis Hotel should not have been required to pay.

The hefty report says there's a widespread failure in government to recognise how traumatic it was for residents to be shut out of their country and then being unable to stay in their own house.

It heard from many people who had been detained at the Comis, who said it was a frightening and difficult experience and that they sometimes felt like prisoners. 

The review found that making those in quarantine pay was 'inappropriate,' and was a 'gross insult for all.' 

However, it also says government's decisions to close the borders to residents an then require quarantine were not unlawful, and its position was 'not unreasonable in the circumstances.'