Health Secretary Matt Hancock will make a Commons statement at around 3.30pm to update MPs on the latest developments in the battle with Covid-19.
It comes as a new variant spread across the UK - originating in India - with fears it could become 'of concern'.
There could be a travel ban for India.
The Government is also due to announce foreign travel plans for all countries for this summer.
And there could be announcements on vaccines as concerns continue over the link between jabs and blood clots.
This morning, Dr Jeffrey Barrett, director of the Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said that the variant of the virus first identified in India should be “watched carefully” but it is “probably not at the top tier of mutations that generate the most concern.”
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that the first cases of the variant were identified late last year.
“This variant has a couple of mutations that are among those that we think are important that should be watched carefully, but they’re actually probably not at the very kind of top tier of mutations, for example in the B117 – or Kent variant – or the South African variant, that generate the most concern.
“And in terms of spread, clearly this variant has increased in frequency in India around the same time as their very large and tragic recent wave,
“But I just don’t think we know yet whether there’s a cause and effect relationship – is this variant driving that spread? Or is it happening at the same time perhaps due to a coincidence?”
He added: “And one thing to note is that there were some sequences of this variant B1.617 seen late last year. And so in some sense, if it really is driving this wave, the fuse has been burning for quite a long time, which would make it look, probably less transmissible than B117.”
