United Kingdon has announced its latest round of regulations in light of the discovery of a highly contagious COVID variant.

The most notable of the new regulation is the possible 10-years in prison for being convicted for lying about their travel plans to try to avoid national protocols.

British Secretary of Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock said on Tuesday any traveler attempting to hide their travel plans back to the country from a "red-list country" in an attempt to avoid a 10-day-quarantine can face up to a $13,800 fine and a decade long prison-term.

The announcement is the latest Series of increasingly severe punishment that the British authorities have implemented to crack down the quarantine offenders.

In August, 3 people who violated their quarantine mandate were jailed for 4-6 weeks on the Isle of MAn after having returned from the UK.

The latest sanctions are the strictest punishments. The sentence for irresponsible travel is now longer than, the maximum sentence for child sex crimes. 

Matt Hancock said in a statement to lawmakers, “I make no apologies for the strength of these measures because we’re dealing with one of the strongest threats to our public health that we’ve faced as a nation.”

Hancock says he hopes to loosen the standing restrictions and enter into a safe international-travel as soon as possible.