Originally Posted by
giorginho
At Corfu airport today they tested roughly 20% of the arriving passengers (whereas at Athens a few days ago there was nobody there to test anyone). I guess today's testing was in part "motivated" by the "start of the season" and the news coverage
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At HER every single person on two flights from Romania (OTP and CLJ) were tested, with lots of Romanians complaining in the press they had to wait with hundreds of other passengers in a cramped room for 3 to 4 hours until they were finally processed.
My bet is that the Greek authorities want to show to the local population they take it seriously, as well as gathering some statistics which they can use for future flights. Reportedly none was infected with could use that as data point to determine the amount of tests done on future flights from similar destinations.
Although it could also be the case that with less flights coming in at regional airports as opposed to ATH, they still have the test capacity to test this many pax there, while in ATH they would never be able to do so.