Boris Johnson has told ministers to keep alive hopes of summer holidays abroad amid a backlash over his quarantine plan.
A 14-day self-isolation scheme will be introduced on Monday for everyone arriving in the UK.
But with business chiefs warning this will wreck the travel and hospitality industry, the Prime Minister is pushing for quarantine-free ‘travel corridors' to popular destinations.
These would allow British families to go abroad and foreign tourists to come here.
A Downing Street source said: ‘We will be guided by the science, but the PM does not want to be standing in the way of people's holidays unnecessarily.'
A 14-day self-isolation scheme will be introduced on Monday for everyone arriving in the UK. Pictured: Airline easyJet has introduced new safety and wellbeing measures for customers and crew
With business chiefs warning this will wreck the travel and hospitality industry, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing for quarantine-free ‘travel corridors' to popular destinations. Pictured: A couple hug each other at Misericordia beach in Malaga, Spain
Boris Johnson (pictured) has told ministers to keep alive hopes of summer holidays abroad amid a backlash over his quarantine plan
Ministers are also looking at whether to test travellers on their arrival in the UK - removing the need for automatic self-isolation.
The 14-day quarantine scheme will be reviewed on June 29 to see whether low case numbers in some destinations might allow the measures to be relaxed on a country-by-country basis.
Leading travel operators still fear they will have to lay off 60 per cent of their staff however.
In other pandemic developments yesterday:
A report revealed how age, ethnicity and obesity dramatically increase the risk of dying from coronavirus;
The House of Commons was branded an ‘embarrassing shambles' as MPs queued for half a mile to vote;
It emerged that Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty had resisted the political pressure to lower Britain's official coronavirus alert level;
Figures revealed that nearly 20,000 hospital patients were discharged into care homes without being tested during the first weeks of lockdown;
At least 25 residents died in just one care home; Ministers have changed the law meaning reviews of the lockdown will take place every 28 days, instead of every 21;
Official figures showed the numbers dying each week have fallen back to levels last seen in late March;
Oxford professor Carl Heneghan predicted there could be no coronavirus deaths by late June or early July;
Leaked figures showed the new track-and-trace system identified only half of contacts in its first three days;
A study suggested that most prospective students want the start of the academic year delayed in order to secure more face-to-face teaching at university.
Home Secretary Priti Patel last night defended the quarantine plan saying that saving lives and office furniture disposal preventing a second peak was the top priority.
‘As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad,' she said.
‘We owe it to the thousands who've lost their lives not to throw away our progress.
'These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.'
The Government's testing tsar, Professor John Newton, yesterday said the test-and-trace regime might be able to cover the risk posed by travellers returning from abroad with the virus.
Ministers are wary of acting until restrictions are eased on the domestic tourism industry, which will not happen until next month at the earliest.
The Government's testing tsar, Professor John Newton, yesterday said the test-and-trace regime might be able to cover the risk posed by travellers returning from abroad with the virus. Pictured: Police doing control on free beaches to avoid gatherings in Salerno, Italy.
Home Secretary Priti Patel (pictured) last night defended the quarantine plan saying that saving lives and preventing a second peak was the top priority
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‘The situation facing hotels, B&Bs and campsites in this country will be a factor,' a source said.
Could you really open up an air bridge to let people go on holiday in Greece while you were stopping people from taking a holiday in Devon? I don't think so.'
George Morgan-Grenville, chief executive of tour operator Red Savannah, accused ministers of using ‘a blunt weapon which will bring only economic disaster'.
A 14-day self-isolation scheme will be introduced on Monday for everyone arriving in the UK.But with business chiefs warning this will wreck the travel and hospitality industry, the Prime Minister is pushing for quarantine-free ‘travel corridors' to popular destinations.
These would allow British families to go abroad and foreign tourists to come here.
A Downing Street source said: ‘We will be guided by the science, but the PM does not want to be standing in the way of people's holidays unnecessarily.'
A 14-day self-isolation scheme will be introduced on Monday for everyone arriving in the UK. Pictured: Airline easyJet has introduced new safety and wellbeing measures for customers and crew
With business chiefs warning this will wreck the travel and hospitality industry, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing for quarantine-free ‘travel corridors' to popular destinations. Pictured: A couple hug each other at Misericordia beach in Malaga, Spain
Boris Johnson (pictured) has told ministers to keep alive hopes of summer holidays abroad amid a backlash over his quarantine plan
Ministers are also looking at whether to test travellers on their arrival in the UK - removing the need for automatic self-isolation.
The 14-day quarantine scheme will be reviewed on June 29 to see whether low case numbers in some destinations might allow the measures to be relaxed on a country-by-country basis.
Leading travel operators still fear they will have to lay off 60 per cent of their staff however.
In other pandemic developments yesterday:
A report revealed how age, ethnicity and obesity dramatically increase the risk of dying from coronavirus;
The House of Commons was branded an ‘embarrassing shambles' as MPs queued for half a mile to vote;
It emerged that Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty had resisted the political pressure to lower Britain's official coronavirus alert level;
Figures revealed that nearly 20,000 hospital patients were discharged into care homes without being tested during the first weeks of lockdown;
At least 25 residents died in just one care home; Ministers have changed the law meaning reviews of the lockdown will take place every 28 days, instead of every 21;
Official figures showed the numbers dying each week have fallen back to levels last seen in late March;
Oxford professor Carl Heneghan predicted there could be no coronavirus deaths by late June or early July;
Leaked figures showed the new track-and-trace system identified only half of contacts in its first three days;
A study suggested that most prospective students want the start of the academic year delayed in order to secure more face-to-face teaching at university.
Home Secretary Priti Patel last night defended the quarantine plan saying that saving lives and office furniture disposal preventing a second peak was the top priority.
‘As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad,' she said.
‘We owe it to the thousands who've lost their lives not to throw away our progress.
'These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.'
The Government's testing tsar, Professor John Newton, yesterday said the test-and-trace regime might be able to cover the risk posed by travellers returning from abroad with the virus.
Ministers are wary of acting until restrictions are eased on the domestic tourism industry, which will not happen until next month at the earliest.
The Government's testing tsar, Professor John Newton, yesterday said the test-and-trace regime might be able to cover the risk posed by travellers returning from abroad with the virus. Pictured: Police doing control on free beaches to avoid gatherings in Salerno, Italy.
Home Secretary Priti Patel (pictured) last night defended the quarantine plan saying that saving lives and preventing a second peak was the top priority
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‘The situation facing hotels, B&Bs and campsites in this country will be a factor,' a source said.
Could you really open up an air bridge to let people go on holiday in Greece while you were stopping people from taking a holiday in Devon? I don't think so.'
George Morgan-Grenville, chief executive of tour operator Red Savannah, accused ministers of using ‘a blunt weapon which will bring only economic disaster'.
