There will be good and bad pressures on the UK’s Covid R number over the coming weeks, likely including travel, as the country continues to emerge from months of lockdown, deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has said.
LBC’s Ben Kentish asked health secretary Matt Hancock, who led the government’s latest Covid briefing on Wednesday (28 April), what the latest data on the effectiveness of vaccines on known variants of Covid-19 meant for international travel this summer.
Hancock said the UK was "on track" to proceed with step three of the government’s plans to ease the country’s Covid restrictions on 17 May, which is also the "at the very earliest" date for a resumption of international travel.
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