Global Travel Taskforce meets

On Tuesday 2 March Grant Shapps, secretary of state for transport chaired the first meeting of the new Global Travel Taskforce to set out a plan for restarting international travel in a safe and sustainable way.

Several government departments, industry bodies, transport operators and travel agencies met to discuss the work of the taskforce and how international travel can be re-opened safely.

This includes developing a new risk-based framework to facilitate international travel, using the suite of measures the government already has in place, such as testing and isolation, and the recommendations from the first Global Travel Taskforce last year.

They will also look at how existing measures, such as the government’s testing and isolation schemes, could be used to facilitate travel while managing the risk of imported cases and ‘variants of concern’.

The taskforce will provide a report to the prime minister on 12 April, which will be used to help government determine when and how to resume safe international travel no earlier than 17 May 2021.

www.gov.uk/government/groups/global-travel-taskforce

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