While everyone is panicking about the Covid-19 pandemic and countries are taking measures, but it seems like the London Heathrow Airport is not on the same radar.
According to several passengers who have arrived at UK airport, there is no sort of measures taken in the airport, and they are not happy about it. Some may describe that it is just 'a normal working day'.
Some locals who just returned to the country were surprised by the very few health checks being carried out at the the London's Heathrow Airport, and they were unsure whether to go into self-quarantine as the medical advice is lacking.
One passenger, Chloe Sloggett, who arrived at the Heathrow on March 28, with her fiance, said that there were posters in the airport explaining the do's & dont's and social distancing signs, but no-one there was enforcing it.
She said, "We had our temperature checked in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) twice and then again in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), but nothing when we landed in the UK."
While another passenger from Southhampton, who is travelling back to UK from Guatemala via Mexico and the US, said, 'In the Americas, I was checked at every land border, every flight, I had doctors asking me questions...I landed at Heathrow and there was no advice or anything. I couldn't see any answers online whether I had to go in quarantine or not.'
Meanwhile, Mete Coban who returned to Heathrow Airport from the U.S. on March 16, said that the UK authorities does not seems to care.
’"I think it's completely irresponsible that we're not at least providing guidance to people about social distancing and giving medical advice.“
New source from Daily Mail Online.