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Waiting for the coast to clear: Plotting travel's course

Government
James Chapple
15 February 2021

Despite advances with vaccines, the UK still has a long road ahead before travel can restart in earnest. James Chapple assesses the situation.

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There’s been much talk of late of a “roadmap” out of the Covid crisis, but how exactly do you plot a course when the route ahead is not just changing, but actively fighting back?

The emergence of a more transmissible Covid variant in December clearly set the UK’s recovery back, particularly with regards to travel – although few would have had “government ad campaign promoting the illegality of holidays” on their 2021 Covid bingo cards.