UK weighs Covid restrictions for travellers from China
The British government said on Thursday it was reviewing whether to carry out Covid checks on arrivals from China, as pressure mounted on prime minister Rishi Sunak to act.
Downing Street insisted there were no plans “at the moment” to reimpose controls; such a move would be likely to add to airport congestion during a period of strikes by Border Force staff.
But senior Tories said controls at airports on arrivals from China could help detect new Covid variants, an approach now being deployed in Italy but so far rejected by other EU countries.
The UK’s Health Security Agency is monitoring the prevalence and spread of harmful variants and Downing Street said it would take into account all available international data.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:George Parker
