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Passenger collapses at Heathrow 'after waiting in seven-hour immigration queue caused by Covid checks' as furious airport bosses demand more Border Force staff
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Around 800 border staff are working at Heathrow and that all are currently in work subject to the normal reasons for absence, according to the Immigration Services Union. Spokeswoman Lucy Moreton earlier told MailOnline the queues are taking so long because travellers cannot use eGates due to the government requirement to check 100 per cent compliance with Covid-19 border restrictions. Footage posted online on Monday afternoon shows a woman lying on the floor of Heathrow Airport being tended to by staff - as many more passengers wait to be cleared through the border. The video's uploader claims the woman had collapsed following a seven-hour wait for entry clearance. Travellers often arrived at the airport without the right documentation and that pre-pandemic a non-contentious entry for someone with the right of residence would have been two minutes if they did not use the eGates. Post-pandemic with the right paperwork, that transaction time is five minutes, the ISU representative alleged - and that without the right paperwork that time shoots up to at least 30 minutes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9472649/Passenger-collapses-Heathrow-airport-waiting-seven-hour-queue.html
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2021/04/14/8601093493187101815/636x382_MP4_8601093493187101815.mp4
Around 800 border staff are working at Heathrow and that all are currently in work subject to the normal reasons for absence, according to the Immigration Services Union. Spokeswoman Lucy Moreton earlier told MailOnline the queues are taking so long because travellers cannot use eGates due to the government requirement to check 100 per cent compliance with Covid-19 border restrictions. Footage posted online on Monday afternoon shows a woman lying on the floor of Heathrow Airport being tended to by staff - as many more passengers wait to be cleared through the border. The video's uploader claims the woman had collapsed following a seven-hour wait for entry clearance. Travellers often arrived at the airport without the right documentation and that pre-pandemic a non-contentious entry for someone with the right of residence would have been two minutes if they did not use the eGates. Post-pandemic with the right paperwork, that transaction time is five minutes, the ISU representative alleged - and that without the right paperwork that time shoots up to at least 30 minutes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9472649/Passenger-collapses-Heathrow-airport-waiting-seven-hour-queue.html
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JANET STREET-PORTER: If you lock people up for over a year one result is guaranteed. They will be desperate to go on holiday. Where? By now, anywhere that's not their postcode. But preferably somewhere with sun, decent food, a beach, and a free lounger. Somewhere they can enjoy themselves without wearing a face mask. Travelling for pleasure should not be regarded as a luxury, as a middle-class obsession or as a 'treat'. But now Boris seems to be punishing us further by denying us the right to travel without a complicated and confusing system of tests and documentation (pictured left, a woman apparently unconscious on the floor of UK arrivals as huge queues built, pictured right).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9476079/JANET-STREET-PORTER-Heathrow-queues-incompetence-Boriss-plan-stop-going-away.html
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Some years ago I went to a stand-up comedy night at Camden Lock, in North London, in aid of the charity Jewish Care. Biggest laugh of the evening greeted a routine by the multi-talented Bradley Walsh, then starting out on his road to stardom. It went something like: 'I'm thrilled to be taking part in a gig for Jewish Care. I've just got back from a week's holiday in Israel. 'Well, I say a week. Actually, I spent 48 hours in Eilat and five days answering questions at the airport.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9476645/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Seven-hours-clear-Heathrow-bordering-ridiculous.html