LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson said on Wednesday he understood that people yearned for
summer holidays abroad and that the government's swift vaccine
rollout was enabling holidays in the European Union.
"I know how important holidays are to people: people think
about them, they save up to them, people yearn to go abroad this
year - I totally get that," Johnson told reporters. "We've got
to balance that against the need to protect our country against
the influx of new variants."
"We've got to balance policy but clearly we have the benefit
now of the double-jab system that is enabling us to, to go to
countries in the EU and to come back to countries, come from
countries in the EU without having to quarantine and same for
the same goes for the U.S.."
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by William James)