Planeur is correct in what he says, I remember all this to be what happened and had a friend that used QR to get back from SE Asia and they were relieved to get back just before the UK lockdown started. Sad fact that modern air travel spreads the virus successfully to the four corners of the earth and rapidly. That's why the richer economies suffered the worst in the beginning of the pandemic due to being well connected. The CEO's comments at the time were just ill informed rubbish he'd do better to keep his comments to himself than come out with such drivel. As to the whatsapp redundancy that just beggars belief that a company would use that as a method to select people for redundancy.