Coronavirus – Flights from Italy, China and Iran STILL arriving in Britain every day despite countries being hardest hit

And Italy’s national's airline Alitalia is still operating up to four daily flights into the Heathrow hub.

At least 16 flights landed in the capital from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome since March 15.

The flights came as Italy was named the epicentre of the virus and as figures showed 4,825 Italians have died.

The route between London and Rome has stayed open despite BA, easyJet and Ryanair cancelling all flights.

Iran Air is also still operating three flights a week from Tehran and in the last week three Iranian aircraft landed at Heathrow.

The Islamic Republic has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world with more than 1,500 fatalities.

Passengers showing symptoms of the infection are not allowed to board flights in the three hard-hit countries.

However, those who do are asked to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival in the UK, but there is no way of enforcing that.

Former Environment minster, Theresa Villiers told the government about the Iran flights after concerned constituents contacted her.