The Health Secretary under recently publicly bombarded PM Boris Johnson has warily stated that summer holidays that go outside the UK will ‘not be possible this year’.
This is after a 14-day quarantine for all international arrivals into Britian. The Health Secretary made his intentions clear on This Morning on ITV, as some companies were known to formulate trip packages for Britons to go out of the Isles. When being asked if holiday planners should scrap their plans, Secretary Hancock said: ‘I think that’s likely to be the case. It is unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to be possible for this summer. I just think that’s a reality of life. ‘It is clear that we will seek to reopen some hospitality from early July if we reduce the spread. But social distancing is going to continue. I think it is unlikely big lavish summer holidays will be possible this year’.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has advised against all but essential international travel since March 17, as domestic holiday plans are explicitly banned along with the foreign exits.
It is a must for anyone coming in from other nations to stay at least two weeks in quarantine. Strangely enough, it was explicitly decided between the two heads of state that the UK and France would be exempt from each other when it came to quarantine isolation, and the restrictions would be of equal, reciprocal measures.
Ireland is also exempt, making the option of going either to Paris or Dublin a much plausible plan for the stressed internees.
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But the Health Secretary has put his foot down, and has told on live national television that there mustn’t be a summer French holiday, as there were reports of reservations piling up within days of the mutual exemption announcement.
When it is expected the final decision would appear on Friday, the quarantine being in near expiration on next Thursday. Officials are baffled by the public response, saying that there is absolutely ‘no end’ to the guidance. This comment comes in bitter harmony as Ryanair announced it will operate nearly 1,000 flights per day from July 1 subject to European countries lifting flight restrictions and ‘effective public health measures’ being put in place at airports.
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