Originally Posted by
Expressflight
The son of a friend (in his mid 30s) went on holiday to Malta with his partner. They returned to 14 days quarantine and that lasted three days before they went off on another holiday to Cornwall. No doubt if he had received a call on his mobile checking he was maintaining quarantine he would have lied and I doubt the location of a mobile can be traced without a warrant.
So is this a rant against the irresponsibility of his generation? No, although the fact that many are irresponsible in this context is well established, it's to illustrate that 14 days quarantine simply doesn't achieve its aim and should be replaced by a test upon arrival back in UK and another test, say, five days later. If both are negative normal life could be resumed. There would certainly be much more likelihood of adherence to 5 days quarantine than 14 days.
Germany was reported to have ended their airport testing at the end of August.
https://www.flightglobal.com/strateg...139903.article
While we all want to save the industry we have to remember that air travel spread this virus around the world at lightning speed. Even now people are going away on holiday, they then forget social distancing and bring the virus home which is what was happening in Germany. It is debatable if someone picked up the virus at the airport or on the aircraft or even on the last days of the trip that even a second test would always pick up the infection which is the whole point of 14 day quarantines.
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/working-for-u...-statement.pdf
The test is a swab of your nose and throat undertaken at one of the Trust testing sites. The test is not 100% accurate;at present it is thought to detect approximately 70% of coronavirusiinfections.A negative test does not mean that you stop self-isolating if you have coronavirus symptoms.