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Lack of coronavirus tests on passengers flying into Britain 'beggars belief'
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mirror.co.ukThe continuing failure to require coronavirus tests on passengers landing in Britain from abroad “beggars belief”, the Government was told yesterday.
No checks have so far been set up to screen all travellers as they arrive at UK airports or harbours. Yet more than 260,000 people continue to fly or sail in each week – potentially bringing the deadly infection with them.
Among them are thousands of British citizens being repatriated in the pandemic but not currently offered a test for the virus as they arrive in their homeland.
Travel hubs in locations abroad – including Italy, Hong Kong and Japan – introduced temperature checks and other forms of screening weeks ago, with quarantine restrictions in place for new arrivals.
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