The airport has decided to separate red list arrivals in order to avoid the spread of Covid variants in queues. Now travellers arriving from green or amber destinations won’t have to queue with people coming from high risk countries.
This past week, and since the international travel was lifted on May 17, there was a lot of criticism of the airports.
Images of packed halls and passengers coming from different destinations queueing together were shared on social media.
People were concerned that mixing passengers could increase Covid variants transmission.
Despite the new traffic light system, travellers coming from low risk countries arriving into UK airports found themselves queueing with arrivals from high risk countries.
From June 1, Heathrow is launching a new terminal to avoid the spread of Covid variants.
Britain’s biggest airport is actually reopening its Terminal 3, which has been closed for the past year.
Now, those travelling from red list countries will then transit through the new terminal.
They will then go to a…
