Covid Air Travel Restrictions Failed to Keep the Virus out of the UK

It seems where at a point where Covid infections are somewhat slowing down (or, maybe, we’ve just grown desensitized to them). And while the virus blindsided the world, some measures were lifted too soon, came too late, or didn’t work at all. Take COVID-19 travel restrictions. United Press International (UPI) reports that COVID-19 travel restrictions in the UK failed as wastewater samples from arriving flights show.

Welsh scientists took wastewater samples from flights that landed at three UK airports — Heathrow, Edinburgh, and Bristol — in the spring of 2022, specifically dates between March 8 and March 31. Samples were also taken of wastewater from the airports themselves. The results may have shocked some.

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COVID was found in nearly all flights that had landed in the country, as well as in wastewater from the terminals. So what happened? UK officials let the countries guard down.