When can I travel to Cornwall? No bookings for Easter weekend

During its latest Covid-19 update, Cornwall Council responded to questions regarding the possibility people might decide take the risk and to travel down to the county during the Easter break, despite the fact that holiday lets cannot start taking bookings until April 12, and then only for single families.

Councillor Sally Hawken, who chaired the meeting, said: "I'll think we'll be clear in communicating the rules as we understand them, which are that there is no travel at this stage.

"We will be pushing out those messages and trying to encourage people to stick to those rules because that's part of why we want to continue to see case rates lowering."

Director of Public Health, Rachel Wigglesworth, who also took part in the meeting, added: "Clearly, in terms of the travel at the moment, that's not allowed and that's still being enforced in terms of people who are going out of their area.

"As we move towards the Easter break, of course it's only the 12th, which is towards the end of the school's traditional time, in which people can come and stay overnight.

Cornwall Council responded to questions regarding the possibility people might decide take the risk and to travel down to the county during the Easter break.

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"That will have to be only within a household group, so there will be some preparation and some clear communications around that as we have done through the different tiers and phases that we've been through in the pandemic.

"Clearly there's a whole range of changes that come along around that time (April 12) as well that we'll want to be communicating really clearly because the risks are really around the indoor mixing and mixing between households which is still quite limited at that point as well.

"It's mainly only people who can come to visit and stay as one household group.

"Hospitality is still not open indoors, there's a whole range of other measures (still in place).

"There's quite a slow release of some of the lockdown measures which I welcome for Cornwall because we know what did happen when we released a lot of the measures really quickly in our Tier one situation and this is quite different.

"We're taking a much more phased approach which I think will hopefully suppress the virus in the lead up to those months leading up to the summer time were we hope we can then really welcome along a lot more visitors."