demand we are seeing is starting to look further out now so people are starting to have confidence that the travel plans they make will actually happen. and earlier today there was more good news for those hoping to travel to the us. fully vaccinated uk travellers can visit from the 8th of november for the first time in nearly 20 months. pcr tests can be used to identify variants of concern. lateral flow tests cannot. the government have argued that the level of vaccination has changed the calculation when it comes to the type of test needed but some in the scientific community disagree on the timing of this change. we re worried about the winter, we re worried about variants. let s keep in mind despite fantastic vaccine uptake, we do have groups in the population not yet covered, particularly young people, so i think most of us in the public health community would prefer this to happen later, not immediately. the date and policy are currently only confirmed in england. the other natio