We're in a better place to lift restrictions - Zahawi17 Jan 2022 10:04
If you missed him earlier, Nadhim Zahawi has told BBC Breakfast that, with continued falling cases, some Plan B rules in England could soon be lifted.
"If you look at infection rates, they remain high, hospitalisations is still high, touching 20,000 people in hospital, but it feels like they're plateauing," he said.
"The good news is the number of people in ICU has been coming down, certainly in London, which was the epicentre, the level of staff absence in education has remained pretty flat, it was 8% before Christmas, it's at about 8.5% at the moment.
"So I'm confident that when we review this on the 26th of January, as we said we would do, then we'll be in a much better place to lift some of these restrictions."
If further restrictions are dropped 26th Jan then I would imagine thos will also give a nice lift for the travel sector