Let the Coronavirus disruption begin: partial post hoc reactive quarantine holds seven planes at London airport– seriously?

Madness

Seven planes held up for hours in London airports as they land with people with coughs and colds and try to check suspected cases. By the time people are symptomatic, its already too late. Temperature checks may only catch the most contagious people and now one person with a common cold can cause a major and unnecessary disruption while other infective people can freely fly in and walk straight through?

HOURS of misery in coronavirus lockdown at Heathrow:

DailyMail UK

Passengers endured hours of misery at Heathrow Airport this morning when up to eight planes were put on lockdown over coronavirus fears after passengers on board complained of symptoms of the deadly virus.

MailOnline understands a British Airways flight from Kuala Lumpur was held up on the tarmac for two hours when it landed at 6.45am after cabin crew grew concerned a Malaysian family ‘of around eight’ might have the contagious infection, now named SARS-CoV-2.

One passenger on the plane said that health workers in protective gowns and face masks came on board the BA34 flight and set up a screen around the family before evacuating everyone off the plane row by row.

The West has […]