Cases hit a three-month high this week, forcing government to confront the possibility of reintroducing various restrictions to halt the spread, which could impact travel.
More positively, Israel is planning to finally reopen to fully vaccinated international tourists from the start of next month after reopening to organised tourist groups earlier this year.
Elsewhere, the UK government may bring forward Covid booster jabs for millions of people and interest rates could be going up soon as inflation heads towards 5%.
Here are the headlines travel woke up to on Friday (22 October):
UK families facing uncertainty over half-term holidays
