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As countries open borders, in the hope that the public's will to travel resumes soon, I don't get why we not testing every traveller that arrives on the spot.

A RAT test takes about 10 to 15min to complete, way faster than it takes to get through border control and customs quarantine. It's not hard to imagine they could issue a RAT for each arriving passenger sometime prior to passport checks, and get the result prior to collecting baggage and clearing customs quarantine.

When there have been regional terrorist threats the heightened levels of security promote countries doing manual bag searches of full aircraft, sometimes more than once, up in SE Asia it's quite common to go through scanners then a manual baggage check at the gate.

So they can't really argue it's too hard to swab everyone from an arriving flight, a few dozen health care workers could each do a passenger a minute comfortably because each passenger already has identifying documents. Most of the domestic testing lag is due to forms that would not be needed in arrivals. In any case, swabbing for a RAT is as fast as if not faster than having your carry on checked.