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Yet they weren’t doing that previously?
Perhaps this new strain is so worrying it requires the testing. That said if that is the case it’ll be too late already.
Just doesn’t square to me.
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I think maybe there's a bit of disparity in how it's all being communicated in the media and how it's actually happened. Lots of headlines saying that the Gov 'knew about this new strain since September', but I have a feeling that they didn't know how contagious it was until recently, hence the drastic Tier 4 introduction.
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I'm not sure I would call it futile; if they test everyone that's currently held at the border (which seems to be new entry requirements for countries that banned all travel from UK) then it controls further potential spread, whether they've got the new strain or not. Most European hospital systems are already at close to max capacity, and a big dump of this new strain would tip them over the edge. Just because it's already present surely doesn't mean that no attempts to control it should be made?