Ebola screening shambles as Gatwick officials say they haven’t been told about new measures and Eurostar staff ‘don’t yet know how tests will be carried out’
Downing Street orders screening at Heathrow and Gatwick and on Eurostar
But passengers will only be asked a basic questionnaire about their health
Gatwick admits they’ve ‘had nothing at all’ about how to screen passengers
Eurostar also says its staff does not know how the process will work
In United States border staff are carrying out temperature screening
Briton who died in Skopje, Macedonia, may have contracted Ebola
The epidemic has killed 3,800 and infected at least 8,000 so far
By Martin Robinson
DailyMailUK
10 October 2014
The Government’s chaotic response to the Ebola crisis worsened today after Gatwick Airport and Eurostar admitted they have still not been told how and when to screen passengers.
Downing Street said last night testing for the killer disease would start ‘within days’, hours after ministers and Britain’s leading doctors had said it would be pointless.
Today Gatwick, which along with Heathrow and Eurostar terminals will screen travellers from the three West African nations worst affected, said they ‘have had nothing at all’ about what to do.
Last night the Government admitted the main new measure against the disease reaching Britain would be a basic passenger questionnaire – and not US-style temperature screening which has been proven effective in other outbreaks.
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