airport screening29 Apr 2020 11:31
@SimonCalder
52 minutes ago
“On arrival in Seoul, passengers will be temperature-checked and made to complete a questionnaire on health and travel history,” warns the Foreign Office in its advice to travellers hoping to change planes at Incheon airport, serving the South Korean capital.
“Anyone displaying a high temperature or a high-risk travel history will be made to pass immigration.”
Yes: though you may simply have been hoping to change planes in Seoul, pausing only in the splendid terminal to buy a (contactless) coffee, your journey is about to become a whole lot worse.
Flying in from the UK is likely to constitute a “high-risk travel history”, since the British incidence of coronavirus is far higher than in South Korea. So whatever your temperature, you will have to go “landside” and take a test to see whether you have Covid-19.
While you are wait for the test result, you may reflect that neither outcome is particularly appealing.