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Originally Posted by Kursk
Should the UK be introducing COVID checks/controls on travellers from China given the surge in coronavirus there and the plan to permit travel in and out of the Country?
Haven’t we been here before?
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There is absolutely no point unless you put all arrivals into quarantine which then has the obvious effect of quarantine hotels becoming incubators for the virus anyway.
As we're not going to pay for hotels to put all travellers from China in for a week, and as the WHO advice seems to be mixed (but mainly towards not) on closing borders anyway, it doesn't seem worth it.
This isn't a new virus any more, it's the same omicron strains which are going around the rest of the world anyway, due to omicron and people being vaccinated as well as a lot of people having the virus previously we have more immunity levels than in 2020.
Not really sure what any border restrictions on China would actually achieve in relation to the costs (financial and otherwise) of putting them in to begin with.
We really do need to move on from it as it's as manageable as getting colds and flu in most people these days.