Coronavirus: Aviation

(asked on 13th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of UK residents who contracted COVID-19 whilst on an aeroplane.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 3rd November 2020

It is not possible to concretely identify where infection occurs in individual positive cases of COVID-19. Where someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 has recently travelled on a flight, contact tracing will be carried out by a public health specialist. Priority is given to contact-tracing close contacts and co-travellers, since these persons face a higher risk than other passengers.

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