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Screening to counter the threat from Ebola began at Britain’s biggest airport yesterday amid doubts over how the checks are being enforced.
The first passengers arriving at Heathrow Terminal 1 after taking indirect flights from West Africa have been questioned to establish any potential exposure to the disease, and had their temperature taken.
The system is expected to be extended to Gatwick and St Pancras Eurostar station over the next week.
But Public Health England (PHE) and Border Force officials admitted there is no fixed plan to deal with people who have visited affected countries but decline to give details or have their temperature taken.
One of the first to go through the checks, documentary maker Sorious Samura, 51, also reportedly branded them a “joke” after passport control staff only realised he had come from Liberia via Brussels when he volunteered the information.
