RE my post of the ...........
« on: April 29, 2020, 10:59:42 AM
We received this piece from a friend of a friend, please take it at face value...........
1 May at 09:30
I am so angry and pained this morning... arrived into Heathrow yesterday and heartbroken to see absolutely ZERO checks being done to arriving passengers who have travelled right around the globe. No masks or Protection on airport workers/emigration, no questions asked on health, no information given on Covid-19, no temperatures taken and absolutely no social distancing measurements enforced. Not even a presence of virus protection anywhere - you would think nothing was happening. People everywhere. No self quarantine advised or enforced quarantine to non uk citizens, no matter what nationality and where they have been travelling.
We had flown into Melbourne from probably one of the safest islands to be right now, kept on the aircraft and given a 20 minute brief on covid by the Australian health authority. All passengers who were not onward travelling out of Oz would be escorted to a government facility and quarantined for 14 days. We were then escorted off the plane family by family, one by one taken away, temperatures taken and questioned about our health, given masks, hand sanitised, explanation of the virus again, signed a health declaration then escorted into a quarantined departure area, told to social distance from every other family and to sit for 8 hours to wait for our connecting flight with only a vending machine.
Driving home from Heathrow to Manchester, not one police stop to check what we were doing out and traffic everywhere with numerous people sharing vehicles. People out walking in groups, children playing outside with no supervision... the list continues.
I’ve turned on the TV this morning and yet again there is so much news on key workers, nhs, nurses, doctors, carers working their butts off and risking their own health - I am so saddened and angry and feel that the UK government is massively failing in protecting the Uk people. Our fellow Europeans have been locked in their homes, living solitary for weeks on end and airport boarders around the world are closed and we are here “welcoming” everyone in with absolutely no checks and no questions asked. So sad. So sorry. Heart broken.
This from the 15.49 update......... today's Daily Post Less than 300 people quarantined as 18.1 million travellers entered UK
Fewer than 300 passengers out of millions coming into the UK from coronavirus hotspots were put into quarantine in the three months before lockdown.
Data provided to Labour MP Stephen Doughty and first published by the Guardian showed that 273 passengers travelling from China and Japan were taken to government isolation centres between January 1 and March 23.
These included travellers on three evacuation flights from Wuhan in China, the source of the outbreak, and one from Japan carrying cruise ship passengers.
Total passenger figures for the same period show that, during those three months, just under 18.1 million people entered the UK from all destinations on scheduled flights or by land or sea.
Mr Doughty submitted a parliamentary written question to find out how many people arriving at the UK border from Spain, China, Italy, USA, Iran, Turkey and France were taken to government-supported Covid-19 quarantine centres in each week from January 1 to March 23.
The breakdown was:
- 83 passengers who arrived on an evacuation flight from Wuhan on January 31;
- 11 passengers on a French-led evacuation flight, again from Wuhan, on February 2;
- 147 people on a final evacuation flight from Wuhan on February 9;
- 32 passengers who had been on board the Diamond Princess Cruise ship and were flown to the UK from Tokyo.
The figures were released amid questions over the Government’s decision not to screen or quarantine more passengers coming from abroad.
A Government spokesman said: “Our approach to tackling coronavirus is, and has always been, driven by the latest scientific and medical advice, and procedures at the border have been strictly following the latest Government guidance throughout.
“The scientific advice showed that placing restrictions at the border would not have had a significant impact on the spread of the virus in the UK.
“Passenger numbers arriving in the UK are currently down by 99% but we continue to keep this under review.”
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/coronavirus-live-updates-global-covid-18199681
