Coronavirus: Should my sister be anxious about an August Corfu trip?

Simon Calder answers your questions on travel during and in the wake of the pandemic

Blue-sky thinking: in a few months the picture will be clearer with regards to travelling to places like this Greek island (Getty/iStock)

Q We are booked to travel with my sister and her family to Corfu in mid-August. She’s really anxious about it but I’m trying to reassure her. Do you think it’s likely to go ahead? I am feeling positive; I feel travel will have to resume as well as it can do by the summer. But I thought it best to get your view on it.

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A Plenty of people are anxious about the prospect of travelling abroad again. Their nerves are not helped by the continuing uncertainty about when “project lift-off” will see holidaymakers heading abroad. I predict, though, that most short-haul trips in mid-August will go ahead.