As we approach the year anniversary of the first coronavirus lockdown in the UK, many will be thinking ahead to when things can get back to normality.
For some, that means travelling and being able to enjoy a holiday abroad in a sunny foreign country.
While the UK seems to be getting a handle on covid-19, thanks to a third national lockdown and the vaccine programme, other countries in Europe are beginning to struggle.
Greece, for example, has been experiencing a renewed surge of coronavirus cases, with about 500 people admitted to hospital each day with the virus.
On Sunday, Greece announced 1,514 new Covid-19 cases and 41 new daily deaths, taking the total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to 237,125, with 7,462 deaths in the country that has a population of around 11 million.
Under the current road map for easing restrictions, the earliest date people in England could go on holiday abroad would be May 17.
Government minister Helen Whately told BBC Breakfast this morning that people should ‘hold off on booking’ a foreign holiday.
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She said: "What I would council is caution at the moment for people to hold off on booking, because as anybody can see, we're in a situation were there are rising rates in many countries in Europe.
"We know that also something that comes with rising rates is increased risk of variants, [that's] why it's so important that we're going to be able to test more rapidly for variants of concern.
"So I would say to people, just hold off. What matters for us at the moment is that we keep pressing on with our vaccination programme and we've got this tremendous situation where half of UK adults have been vaccinated."
She added: "Look, let's keep pressing ahead with that and the steps that we're taking to control the virus here in the UK."
There is also talk that a 'traffic' light system could be put in place to help people travel abroad, but talks are still in the early stages.
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A Government taskforce is considering how international travel will work and is due to report to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on April 12.
Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Spi-M modelling group which advises the Government, said over the weekend that international travel this summer is "extremely unlikely" due to the risk of importing variants.
However, Professor Andrew Hayward, from University College London and a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told Radio 4's Today programme it could be a possibility with the right system in place.
He said: "I suspect what we may end up with is some sort of traffic light system with some countries that are no-go areas, for example likely to be South Africa and South America; other areas where there will be more severe restrictions, there will be some combination of vaccine certificates, testing and maybe quarantine, and maybe there will be some low-risk countries that you can go."
