A friend of my son’s has just said that he went to Italy this week and it took him over 4 hours to get through Italian passport control due to detailed health checks. He’s just flown back to Stanstead and he’s walked straight through passport control with no checks …. 10 minutes from getting off the plane until walking out of the front door.
Another friend (a member of my son’s partner’s girl band) was in Rome last weekend. She told us how rigorous and time consuming the health tests were at Rome airport, and also said that she just breezed through Birmingham airport with no checks or questions at all. She is now self isolating because her company has insisted on it, but there was no word or direction from the government at all.
Make of this what you will.