Monday, March 22, 2021

Allowing summer holidays abroad risks another lockdown, Johnson is warned

Sage experts are worried about overseas breaks leading to rise in vaccine-resistant variants in UK * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage Lifting the ban on foreign holidays in the coming months could risk another lockdown next winter, Boris Johnson is being warned, amid mounting alarm about a third wave of infections sweeping continental Europe. Scientific experts and opposition politicians are urging the government to be extremely cautious before loosening travel restrictions, with their concerns about the prevalence of new variants of the virus overseas increasingly shared by Whitehall. Continue reading...