MPs, meanwhile, are vowing to continue meeting the public face-to-face, despite the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess in his Essex constituency last week.
Elsewhere, Latvia is to go into a four-week lockdown in a bid to control surging Covid cases, and investors are betting on an imminent rise in the UK’s interest rate in November due to inflation fears.
Here are the key headlines the travel industry woke up on Tuesday (19 October).
Covid cases increase by nearly 50,000 per day
