Neville's Breakfast
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False claim in thread title. Odd conspiracy theory in post.
Good effort
Good effort
Great that we’ve given them all weekend to fly back with the virus with no test or quarantine upon return for those that make it this weekend. Seems very sensible indeed.
.. and of course these people will be rigorously monitored to ensure that they stick to their isolation rules?
Which people? There’s no one travelling unless it’s the small numbers coming home or for emergencies.
I’ve enjoyed people saying there is flights coming in everyday from xyz and posting an arrivals board - 90 percent of these are cargo flights.
The people (however small you think in number) who are arriving by air in the United Kingdom (or is it just England).
It’s tiny, I’ve spent the last week looking at figures
All the locations enter require some sort of test, I wouldn’t worry to much about the people coming back from places with about 5 cases per 100k
The headline of “flights banned” is flashy, but realistically there’s not a lot to ban.
"All travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days."
My point still applies. However few there might be, will their compliance to their conditions of entry be monitored in any sort of effective way?
The same as before, locator form/spot checks
How do you make sure people waiting for test results in the U.K. comply?
Given it’s nearly impossible to get a test result in Barbados (for example) inside 48 in hours - how do you stop people on flights tonight, tomorrow and Sunday getting back?
...... which is why I'm cynically wondering whether it's any good.
Has Tenerife escaped CV19 cases and deaths just now?
No, but not nearly as bad as there and people appear to be more compliant. Difficult to give precise numbers given transient population but currently about 300/100,000.
Cases on way down but island economy in total shreds and lots of very sad sights. Hardship isn't difficult to see, really very distressing
I haven’t been to The Canaries since 1993. Were there still a load of casual worker residents eg Brits, but also Africans selling bits?
How the hell are those people paying their rent, buying food?
About time
It’s not a ban, it’s the ending of the travel corridors that meant arrivals from certain countries didn’t have to self isolate on arrival. Now everyone who arrives into country has to have had a negative test within the 72 hours before they travelled and will have to isolate for 10 days on arrival (they can pay for a private test after 5 days and if negative they no longer need to isolate). Travel is currently banned from South America and Portugal due to the new Brazilian variant found.