our transport correspondent caroline davies is here. what do we know exactly, caroline? at this stage, relatively little, huw. this test is likely to apply regardless of how you travel to the uk, you will be likely to have to show a negative covid test. we don't know what type of test they might be looking to use, and we don't know if it will apply for uk nationals as well as foreign nationals travelling to the uk. speaking to those in the aviation industry, there is frustration. many of them have been calling for testing for some time, since relatively early on in the pandemic. many other countries already require a negative covid test in order to be able to visit.

there have been steps taken by the uk government to try to limit strains of the virus originating in other countries having an impact in the uk, so for instance flights from south africa are currently banned. the government would also point to schemes like the travel corridor schemes like the travel corridor scheme that have managed imported infections, but it is clear that at this stage they are trying to take ita this stage they are trying to take it a step further. one other element of travel as well, fewer passengers means it is likely we will see train services reduced at the start of this year, just another impact of lockdown. caroline, many thanks once again, caroline davies, our transport correspondent. the pandemic has so far claimed the lives of more than 76,000 people in the uk. the scale of the losses means that a much wider community of family and friends has been dealing with grief and shock, a process made even harder in periods of lockdown when communication is made more difficult.

jon kay has been talking to hearing from two people who've been affected. i'd been with rob for 25 years. we met through a lonely—hearts club. colin lost his partner rob just before christmas. covid caused blood clots on his lungs. he was 56. rob was a very fun—loving person. # and we could be together baby... # very outgoing, friends with absolutely everybody. it's rob here again, welcome to melbourne... this time last year, the couple were on the holiday of a lifetime. now colin faces the new year alone. the outpouring that we've had since his death, the messages i've had on facebook have been absolutely brilliant, and they've helped me through it all. when the pandemic began, rob decided to leave his deskjob

in the nhs to work as a nurse in a&e — helping covid patients. his funeral cortege went past bristol southmead hospital. he wanted to be on the front line. he felt that he was more use doing things like that than being in research. i think i'm going to find things now very quiet. everything just seems empty. "i've tested positive for covid." "breathing is ok. . . " in the days before christmas, rachel's auntiejan said she was coping fine, but her situation rapidly deteriorated. i then sadly messaged her on christmas day, not realising that when i messaged her, it never went through, she had actually passed. jan docker was 55, a special—needs teacher in london with no underlying health problems. it was the suddenness of her death that shocked her niece the most.

i think people's perception of covid is that you get ill, there's warning, you will end up in icu, there's time to kind of hopefully recover or say goodbye to loved ones. but in ourcase, it was sadly not to be. how has what happened to her affected the way you view this virus? i've seen how bad it can be for people. but it's not until you lose a loved one do you realise actually how dangerous this virus is. what would your message to people be from where you stand? all i can say to people is please, please obey the rules. i don't want anybody else to go through what i've gone through. and ijust hope that we come out of it soon. jon kay, bbc news, bristol. just a few of the many families and friends dealing with grief and loss

during this pandemic. that wasjon kay reporting there. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are pippa crerar, the daily mirror's political editor and anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in a changing europe. tomorrow's front pages... the telegraph's front page focuses on vaccines, saying that thousands of pharmacists have offered to help give the jabs, but have been met with silence by the government. meanwhile, the i reports the government is planning to increase the rate of vaccination by opening nhs vaccine hubs and sports stadiums and exhibition centres.

hubs in sports stadiums and exhibition centres. the guardian says further restrictions could last for months, as data shared at the latest government briefing showed more than 1 million people are currently infected with the virus in england. the metro leads with the latest uk government statistics for coronavirus infections, which show as many as one in 30 people in london have confirmed infections. the mail also reports on that story, saying england's chief medical officer said even if everyone followed the rules in the current lockdown, he couldn't rule out further restrictions to fight the virus next winter. the financial times looks at the uk chancellor's plans for new £4.6 billion financial package to help companies through the latest lockdown. so, let's begin. we're going to start with the guardian. tough curbs for months as one and 50 have the virus accompanied by a rather sombre picture outside the royal london hospital of ambulances and someone being wheeled in. for months and

months, pippa. yes, well, this has been with us for ten months, this virus. it's a long time since the first lockdown. i think back then, there had been a degree of hope that we wouldn't necessarily need to get the vaccine to move on from it, but there was also an expectation i think that when we hit winter, there would be a second wave. lo and behold, it's happened. what a lot of people seemed quite surprised by is that everybody expected a second wave over and yet the government doesn't seem to have put the plans in place ahead of time and drag its feet on implementing the second lockdown. they obviously penned this on the new variant strain, but we are now in a situation today where we have borisjohnson asked leaning his decision to plunge the country into a third national lockdown,

suggesting along with the chief medical officers said that this could go on for months to come. he said any prospect of emerging from it in mid february was a subject to if it's an caveat. michael gove earlier said it was unlikely he could og for any guarantees that we could og for any guarantees that we could merge from restrictions —— offer guarantees. chris whitty raised the prospect of more restrictions next winter. it's a pretty bleak picture as we sit here of the year. many people hope the vaccine will be able to make life returned to normal sooner rather than later, and yet still, we have these senior leaders telling us that could stretch on for months. we will get onto the guardian, but i remember watching a perfect storm and there's a bit towards the end where one sailor, said itjust won't let us go. i thought of that almost

every morning. there is a missing element of that film that people are focusing on, human agency. there's not much you can do. whether the prime minister has delayed for too long, there is the unseen respectable of him encouraging kids to go back to school, closing schools on monday. what is written through this guardian piece isjust how negative everything is. you have this upbeat prime minister who could not even guarantee kids would be fully back at school before the summer fully back at school before the summer holidays. i think today is the first time we had over 60,000 testing positive and one day, so very little in the way of good news is. let's turn to the metro. it says, sombrely, one in 30 has the

virus in london. you, you, me at three. 27 others, this would be big enough, and we ask who has it quiz it's pretty different from the march lockdown. very few people actually knew anybody personally who had the virus, or at least... focus knew anybody personally who had the virus, orat least... focus on knew anybody personally who had the virus, or at least... focus on the new because there wasn't much texting then —— testing. we all know people, and i have friends and collea g u es people, and i have friends and colleagues who are suffering from it at various degrees of severity, and these are very shocking figures published today. the total of case number, which suggested that one in 50 people in england currently had coronavirus last week, and the

figures are only going one way. these regional breakdowns concentrate on london figures, which is one in 30 people, which is really not very many at all. it really goes some way to explain how this new variant has exploded in the capital on the southeast and why you have pictures like the front page of the guardian and reports from the front line of the nhs that they're really suffering a crisis now. nevertheless, they are facing higher figures than they were at the peak in april. anand, picking up on pippa's point, does the fact we all know people who have it change the way we all react? yeah, i'm sure it does. having personal knowledge, we saw in the case of the prime minister, changes our attitude toward the disease or any news events. the figures are staggering. i find myself asking myself, one

events. the figures are staggering. ifind myself asking myself, one in 30, one and 50 is striking. one in 50 is 2%, which i think... but this is for the 27th of december two the 2nd of january. pippa is for the 27th of december two the 2nd ofjanuary. pippa is absolutely right, there's only one way those figures will be going. so, i suspect these figures are going to get worse before they get better. let's stay with the numbers. the financial times, written faces long haul out of the crisis. the chancellor pledges for 6p in support. that paper also has the one and 50 figure. —— £2.6 million. what do you make of the chancellor's policy? it's inevitable that once a prospect of a lockdown extends, at

least until the end of february and possibly beyond, there be requirements much of which runs out. the current round of support runs out at the end of march and april. it's no surprise the government has come forward with the package. i think what's interesting is a 4.6 billion sounds like a big number, but we've gotten use to big numbers. this is in the form of grants, of about £9,000 for companies to help support them. the business leaders are saying even that's not going to be enough to support them and thousands of companies are likely to go under. many already have, and that means more numbers added to the prospective joblessness total. it was quite interesting, at the press conferences, chris whitty talked about merging from restrictions by

degrees. you might have restrictions lifted and further restrictions, but evenin lifted and further restrictions, but even in tier 3 or tier 4, there are real pressures on businesses. laws are coming open, which is where this support is being focus. going forward , support is being focus. going forward, as we emerge from the health crisis, we're still going to be in health crisis, we're still going to beina health crisis, we're still going to be in a very, very serious economic crisis. the government's got a budget at the beginning of march and i think which probably look for and expect quite serious injections of cash into the economy to help it right out that economic crisis. cash into the economy to help it right out that economic crisism isa right out that economic crisism is a vaccinating point. 4.6 billion almost means nothing any more after all these billions and billions, but to individual businesses, this is the difference between staying afloat or going under. is this enough for them? business leaders

are saying now... business is made up are saying now... business is made up of £9,000 grants to companies in the worst affected areas, i think it's retail, leisure and hospitality. there are two questions. firstly, is it enough or will you see companies going under simply because they're not getting enough from the government? equally worrying for the chancellor is, am i giving grants to firms that are going to go under anyway? is this sufficiently well targeted ? the going to go under anyway? is this sufficiently well targeted? the fact of the matter is no one knows the answer until we start emerging out of the public health crisis, but either way, we're headed of the public health crisis, but eitherway, we're headed in of the public health crisis, but either way, we're headed in the direction of a significant unemployment crisis i fear. the next phase will start to be thinking about that. whatever measures he's put in place today, it's not can i manage to save all the businesses he trying to save. vi focuses on —— vi.