UK: Heathrow airport calls for airport testing after number of passengers plunge

UK’s Heathrow airport has renewed its call for COVID-19 testing at airport after it reported a drastic plunge in passenger numbers amid ongoing pandemic. According to reports, 8,60,000 passengers travelled through Heathrow in July, 88 per cent down as compared to previous year.

UK government, which is mulling a full revival of businesses, has mandated quarantine on arrivals from Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Bahamas and Andorra. Last week, country’s finance minister Rishi Sunak reportedly said that government would t hesitate to d more countries to its quarantine list including ally France.

60% route remained uperated 

travel restrictions have affected London airport majorly. As per airport’s manment, 60 per cent of its route network remained grounded requiring passenger to quarantine for 14 days. Recently, it saw a slight uplift after government introduced travel corridors on July 4.

However, Heathrow’s manment is of opinion that airport testing of passengers could safely keep routes open. In dition, it could restart or long-closed routes which could help country's ecomy, which is fast slipping into recession, to recover.

Speaking to international media reporters. CEO John Holland Kaye said that tens of thousands of jobs have been lost because Britain remains cut off from critical markets such as US, Cana and Singapore.Elaborating furr, he said that government could save jobs, by introducing testing to cut quarantine from higher-risk countries, while keeping public safe form COVID-19.

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This comes as experts have predicted a GDP drop of seven per cent in second quarter of pandemic hit year. figures, which would be released mid-week, will put country’s ecomy in recession for first time since 2008 financial crisis. As per ecomists, two consecutive quarters of ecomic plunge are required for any country to be called under recession.

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