Speaking at the government’s latest Covid briefing on Tuesday (23 March), Johnson said he "certainly" intended to offer an update on travel by 5 April.
This would precede a report, due to be made public on 12 April, by the government’s Global Travel Taskforce, which has been tasked with establishing how international travel in the age of Covid can be restarted safely and robustly, with 17 May fixed as the "at the very earliest" date for any such resumption.
Dominic Yeatman of The Metro pressed Johnson on the UK’s travel ban exemption for those who own second homes overseas, citing Johnson’s father, Stanley, as an example.
