Do you accept that we shouldn’t be going abroad?

Simon Calder answers your questions on foreign travel and flight cancellations

Public Health England hasn’t published data on imported cases (EPA)

Q Surely it is time you accepted the uncomfortable fact that in a pandemic people should not be crossing international borders for fun?

Please don’t use that argument that such travel is often to places with far lower national rates of infection than here in the UK and therefore such holidaymakers are actually safer abroad. This is a completely facile and false argument because:

a) A low national rate might conceal far higher rates in places where foreign visitors are staying.