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Originally Posted by denphone

Heathrow Airport is to trial temperature screening technology to monitor people moving through the airport for signs of coronavirus.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...ology-11983947

Good news we're moving in the right direction, albeit in a limited way, a shame we didn't have it earlier. From January to March over 18 million people entered the UK without any health checks including coronavirus hotspot countries.

At least 20,000 people infected with coronavirus arrived in the UK before lockdown amid lack of restrictions
Tens of thousands of people infected with coronavirus entered UK as ministers accepted scientific advice it would have 'negligible' effect
These arrivals would have infected some 50,000 more people given the World Health Organisation’s assessment of an average transmission rate at the start of March of between 2 and 2.5.
Figures provided to the home affairs committee by the Home Office show that between January 1 and the end of March 18.1 million people entered the UK without any health checks including from coronavirus hotspot countries. Of these, just 273 were quarantined.
Even by conservative estimates of prevalence, this would have meant 20,000 being infected.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...d-uk-lockdown/