The government’s deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, has warned there remains "great uncertainty" over whether summer holidays will be able to go ahead later this year.
Speaking at a government press briefing on Monday (1 March), Van-Tam said a combination of the emergence of new Covid-19 variants and the progress of other countries’ vaccination programmes would play a key role in UK residents’ ability to travel for leisure this summer.
Asked by Sky’s Thomas Moore to "level with the British public" on the prospect of a foreign holiday this summer, Van-Tam said: "I think we are still in a zone of great uncertainty about what the virus will do next.
