Young travellers

SIR – It would be shameful if the young were yet again disadvantaged due to Covid, in favour of the vaccinated elderly this summer.

If travel requires either proof of vaccination or a negative test result, every traveller should be required to pay a nominal Covid surcharge in advance, perhaps £5 or £10.

This money could then be used to provide free Covid tests to those holidaymakers who are too young to have been offered a vaccine. Such a gesture would at least recognise the huge sacrifices made by the young to protect others, and allow people who have benefited from the rapid rollout of the vaccine to help those who continue to wait for their own jabs. Julia Sharpe

Salisbury, Wiltshire

SIR – The Government is to announce which countries fall in the red, amber and green categories for travel. The criteria include levels of Covid infections, deaths, vaccinations and testing capacity.

But, as with the criteria for the United Kingdom lockdown roadmap, the thresholds for success or failure, and respective ratings are not published. It is thus impossible to see how the criteria apply.

This allows delay in release from lockdown, as well as international travel. Data are irrelevant if you cannot attach meaning to them, as with the rest of the Covid propaganda machine. Stuart Moore

Bramham, West Yorkshire

SIR – My husband and I had our second vaccinations three weeks ago.

The police and crime commissioner election is taking place on Thursday May 6, and my husband is a poll clerk in our village hall. He has been issued with a Covid-19 rapid antigen test, which he has to do.

What a waste of public money. Rosemary Corbin Zeals, Wiltshire