Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeThousands faced airport queues of up to three hours yesterday on the busiest getaway weekend since the pandemic took grip. Almost 400,000 Brits are jetting away after prices for amber-list destinations tumbled by up to half. Heathrow said it was an isolated incident at one terminal and extra Border Force staff had been drafted in. Tui has almost double the number of passengers travelling compared to last weekend, with the Balearics and Greece the favourites. In the UK, the number of people who tested positive for coronavirus yesterday was 36,389.

Source: Daily Mirror July 24, 2021 21:22 UTC