Originally Posted by
DomyDom
We should have a targeted ban on flights and travellers from countries with a high infection rate (we still don't)
The issue with any targeting of individual countries is that it always comes foul of the Foreign Office, who regardless of the circumstances are terrified of any individual countries being singled out as they will commonly take the huff and impose reciprocal regulations that upset all their diplomacy. Global approaches to an extent overcomes this. The fact that it decimates the UK aviation industry is by the by to them.
It also is quite defeated by those coming through intermediate hubs. Emirates coming in to the UK from Dubai have probably got on board people who started in 30 or 40 different countries, but who if they come from one of the embargoed places will happily show their documentation that they are coming from Dubai, or alternatively have been sat next to someone from such a place for the last 8 hours.