Seasonal workers flown in from Romania to pick UK crops

• Two flights are understood to have been chartered by G’s, in time for its lettuce harvest

• The workers are said to have been checked for symptoms in Romania and screened again upon arrival

More seasonal migrant labourers have been flown into the UK from Romania to help pick fruit & vegetable crops.

The Times reported this week that 180 farm workers were due to fly from Bucharest to London Stansted on Thursday (16 April). A further five flights are also expected to come in over the next few months.

Two of the flights are understood to have been chartered by G’s, whose lettuce harvest is due to start being picked in the coming weeks.

The workers are said to have been checked for symptoms of coronavirus in Romania and were to be screened again upon arrival before being bussed to farms in East Anglia.

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