Anyone booking a holiday is taking a chance on future of COVID-19 outbreak - UK minister

 

FILE PHOTO: A message reading "Don't come on Holiday, Self Isolate" is seen in Snowdonia as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Llanberis, Wales, Britain, April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carl Recine

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons booking a summer holiday are taking a chance on the direction of the coronavirus outbreak, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday.

 

European travel company TUI said on Wednesday there would still be a summer holiday season this year and it was ready to resume providing holidays. Britain’s foreign office is currently advising against all travel abroad.

 

“Right now you can’t travel abroad. If you are booking it then you are clearly, by the very nature, taking a chance on where the direction of this virus goes and therefore where the travel advice is in the future,” Shapps told BBC TV when asked if people should book summer holidays.

 

“That is not something people would want to take lightly of course.”

 

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the boss of ryanair says he will be flying normally by july 1 and to hell with distancing on planes as he plans to pack em in like sardines ...ggrrrr

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

the boss of ryanair says he will be flying normally by july 1 and to hell with distancing on planes as he plans to pack em in like sardines ...ggrrrr

Good, why should he run an unprofitable business. If all the airlines go bust, how will you get aywhere? This whole situation with social distancing is going OTT, make your decisions whether you want to fly or not. I would fly on a packed plane again and I did in March.