No routine testing taking place at Britain’s open airport borders

Despite British citizens being subjected to at least another three weeks of lockdown, the UK government has yet to enact any incoming travel restrictions. As a result of this, the health secretary has said that over 100,000 arrivals a week will be free to enter the country unscreened.

The Health Secretary Matt Hancock was asked by the controversial figure Piers Morgan on how many people were being tested for coronavirus as they stepped off international flights arriving in the nation’s airports. Matt Hancock has revealed there is currently no routine testing at Britain’s air borders. 

Mr Hancock followed up this admission by saying that the number of people still arriving in the United Kingdom by air is currently at around 15,000 people a day. Whilst this number is a fraction of the number of people normally arriving in the UK it still means a significant 105,000 people coming to Britain every week without a health check.

Mr Hancock attempted to defend the no-testing policy because the number of arrivals had fallen, and called the 105,000 a week figure of new arrivals during a time of global pandemic “very very low”. He further explained that the scientific advice he had received was the benefits of closing the borders was small because there was already transmission going on within the United Kingdom, and that arrivals from some areas were treated differently, but Mr Hancock did not expand on this.

The Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice has called the continuing inflow of flights indefensible, while Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called it insane. The British government’s approach to the lockdown, where citizens are strictly policed but the borders are not, are something of an anomaly from a worldwide point of view.

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