Britain is urgently reviewing its social distancing rules and might be able to relax quarantine for travellers to help its economy recover from a coronavirus crisis collapse, the country’s finance minister Rishi Sunak said.

“It’s important that we look at it comprehensively, and that’s what we will do urgently,” Sunak told Sky News about the two metre social distancing rule, adding that preliminary work had already begun.

Sunak also said the government could make changes to a 14-day quarantine for people coming into the country, such as the introduction of travel corridors with specific countries.