The UK¡¯s secretary of state for health and social care Matt Hancock has said the government is working on plans to allow those who have received a full course of Covid vaccinations to travel more freely.

Speaking to Sky News¡¯ Kay Burley, Hancock said, ¡°We are working on plans to allow the vaccine to bring back some of the freedoms that have had to be restricted to keep people safe¡±.

When asked when this might happen, Hancock said ¡°when it is safe to do so¡±.?

¡°We want to do this right, carefully and properly but we do want to get those freedoms back¡­It is absolutely something we are working on and absolutely something I want to see,¡± he said.

This is despite prime minister Boris Johnson's comments yesterday that this would be a "difficult year for travel".

At today¡¯s Travel Matters event run by ABTA, the association¡¯s chief executive Mark Tanzer called on the Government to ¡°recognise that double vaccinated passengers have a different risk profile to non-vaccinated passengers, both in respect of infection and transmission¡±.?

¡°Other countries are ahead of us in this, as in many other respects. There have been press rumours that this will be recognised as part of first review of the system ¨C due on 28?June ¨C and we plead for this change as soon as possible,¡± said Tanzer.

The chair of the UK Government's transport select committee Huw Merriman MP said, "Double jabbing should [have the effect of] turning amber countries to green. I would like by 28 June for the government to say this will happen in July rather than in August. I do think the change is likely. The government needs to demonstrate to those who have had it [the vaccine] that there is some dividend for that ¨C to be able to travel abroad.The government owes it to the travel sector to ease restrictions and, if they¡¯re not, they need to put their hand in their pocket."