UK minister: “we don’t know” when international travel will resume

The key question could be when will we be able to travel, when will we be able to international travel. The answer is, we don’t know the answer to that question yet. It depends on both the level of vaccination here and critically elsewhere. And as I mentioned, I was just checking the figures this morning, we’ve done 13 million plus vaccinations, which is just more than the whole of the EU put together. So we’ll need to wait for other countries to catch up as well in order to be able to do that wider international unlock because we can only control the situation here.” “But I think the British public would expect a pretty strong action. Because we’re not talking now just about – oh, there’s a lot of coronavirus in that country and you might bring some more of it back when we already have plenty of it here. What we’re talking about now are the mutations, the variants, and that is a different matter because we don’t want to be in a situation where we later on discover that there’s a problem with the vaccines. For the time being I have to say getting vaccinated is the very best thing that people can do.”