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Planes still landing from Covid Hotspots - no airport testing?

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WaitroseIsMySpiritualHome · 23/03/2020 16:01

Why?

Why are planes still coming in from Iran/China/Italy/Spain and allowing passengers to just merge into the terminal? Of course I understand that some people are being repatriated, but this is mental? You have people coming in from high-risk countries, contained in a space where testing would be easy? Or are they just assuming that now we are practicing social-distances (allegedly), it's neither here nor there?

When will they start testing people? Surely only then can we start to understand the scale and movement of the virus and plan accordingly?

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ilovecakeandwine · 23/03/2020 16:03

I'm not surprised, I've said this before isn't this the reason why it's spread round the world ?

Cornettoninja · 23/03/2020 16:09

It’s a bit stable door/horses now isn’t it? I think the advice is to isolate anyway.

I imagine it’ll become more of an issue when we see a reduction in our own cases.

Growingboys · 23/03/2020 16:10

Bit late for that now

Derbygerbil · 23/03/2020 16:12

China is hardly a CV hotspot any more!

WaitroseIsMySpiritualHome · 23/03/2020 16:13

Yes I suppose it's a bit redundant now and agree that this will matter far more when we have (hopefully) started squashing the curve, but still seems very blase...

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