Allow more travel abroad

Sir, – I agree with Dr John Cameron regarding the blacklisting of countries, the latest France (Quarantine not thought through, Courier, August 17).

It made, for example, no sense to blacklist all of Spain, including the main holiday areas, when the viral flare-ups were confined to just a few regions, notably Catalonia.

In any event the criterion should be not the number of cases but the number of deaths, and the virus seems mercifully to be losing its potency.

The risk of quarantine will deter business trips at a time when we badly need to restore normality and to counter the economic devastation caused by our leaders’ overblown lockdowns.

But Her Majesty’s Government will no doubt be happy that the pound has been shored up by would-be holidaymakers not buying Euros.

George Morton. Hudson Road, Rosyth.

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