New pictures have emerged showing hordes of people queueing at Heathrow Airport during lockdown.
Travellers were seen in socially distanced queues at the UK’s biggest airport on the day before new restrictions come in requiring all arrivals to produce a negative test result before they can be let into the country.Heathrow’s departure boardIt comes as the UK announced that from Monday it will be shutting all travel corridors – which had exempted arrivals from certain nations having to quarantine – amid fears over new coronavirus variants being brought to the UK from abroad.
It is unclear how full the flights in and out of the London airport were on Sunday, and it is likely that some of the pictures are taken during natural peaks in queues, like when passengers are asked to board or go through security.A busy departures hall at Terminal 5More travel restrictions are set to come in on MondayThe vast majority of people in the airport appeared to be wearing face masks
It is not the first time long queues have been seen at the airport before new government policies were introduced.to leave the country before holidays were ‘banned’. The new policy dropping travel corridors means arrivals from every destination will need to self-isolate for 10 days or receive a negative Covid-19 test result at least five days after entering the UK.This morning, the Foreign Secretary,
Don't let the metro bait you people.
Can’t people just stay home?
Tomorrow's rule change applies to arrivals. Anyone 'fleeing' the UK has to comply with the rules of the country they're travelling to 🙄
Because of course we didn't get into this mess in the first place because of refusing to shut down air travel. At all.
So England has no problem spreading the virus all over the world ?
JeanneBartram What am I missing in this story? I know rules for incoming flights have changed but is anything changing on Monday for flights leaving the uk?
Hoping they has their test negative 72 hrs before flight
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