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Businesses could be asked to stagger employees' working hours when the lockdown eases, the transport secretary has said.
Grant Shapps told the BBC that the move would help to prevent crowded commutes that risked spreading coronavirus.
Mr Shapps said more buses and trains would run but he hoped to encourage cycling and walking.
He also said he was "actively looking at" quarantining people travelling to the UK from abroad.
Rail bosses said last month that social-distancing of any kind would be "extraordinarily difficult" to manage and police, and could reduce the capacity of an individual train by between 70% and 90%.
Mr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was looking at a range of options for people to travel to work, including encouraging what he described as a "massive expansion" in interest in "active travel" such as cycling or walking.
"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, working with businesses and organisations to do that," he said.
He also said he was working with train companies and unions on maintaining social distancing rules on platforms and at bus stops.
Hand sanitiser could also be made available and one-way systems for passengers introduced, he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.
Analysis
By Jonathan Blake, political correspondent
With polls suggesting a relatively high level of support and compliance with lockdown measures, ministers will need to tread carefully.
Nobody is expecting restrictions to be lifted overnight and life to return to normal - far from it.
But the mantra for people to "stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives" appears to have worked well.
A new message may have to be more nuanced, if more people are able to return to work and businesses are encouraged to adapt.
Signalling to the public that the time is right to take a step out of lockdown will also require convincing them it is safe to do so.
Thursday, when the government is legally required to review the restrictions, will be the day we find out what comes next.
It comes as businesses called for a "carefully phased" plan for lifting lockdown restrictions to be set out immediately, as many say they need weeks to prepare for resuming operations.
Business groups and unions received draft government guidelines on a safe return to work on Sunday, and have until 21:00 BST to respond.
Mr Shapps said with testing now available to all staff and residents, infection rates were now falling in care homes as well as other parts of the community.
For that reason, he said he hoped the country would avoid care homes transmitting the virus back into the rest of society.
He was responding to a report in the Independent that Prof Keith Willett, NHS England's strategic director for Covid-19, warned on Thursday that care homes were expected to be the "epicentres of transmission" in the next few weeks. Nearly 30% of care homes have experienced an outbreak.
Asked whether fewer people would have died if testing capacity had been greater sooner, he said: "Yes.
"If we had had 100,000 test capacity before this thing started and the knowledge that we now have retrospectively I'm sure many things could be different."
But he said that although the UK has a big pharmaceuticals industry, it does not have a testing industry like Germany's, making it more difficult to increase test numbers.
Defending the decision not to close airports or introduce screening for international arrivals earlier in the pandemic, Mr Shapps said the advice was that a "complete lockdown of the borders" might only have delayed the virus by three to five days.
"We had millions of people abroad who needed to return home," he said.
But he said that now the infection rate was falling to a more manageable level, plans for screening and quarantining people travelling to the UK from abroad were "a serious point under consideration".
Representative body Airlines UK said a 14-day quarantine period would "effectively kill air travel".
Chief executive Tim Alderslade said it would be a "blunt tool measure" that would "completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies".
"What the UK should be doing is leading internationally with health and aviation authorities on common standards, including health screening, which will enable our sector to restart and give people assurances that it's safe to travel", he said.
In other developments:
- Boris Johnson has revealed in an interview with the Sun on Sunday that "contingency plans" were made for his death while he was seriously ill in hospital with coronavirus
- A survey by the British Medical Association suggests that almost half of doctors in England might be buying their own protective equipment or be reliant on donations
- An NHS app aimed at limiting a second wave of coronavirus will be trialled on the Isle of Wight this week, Mr Shapps said
- Wales' first minister said schools would need about three weeks to prepare for a phased return and mentioned June as an example of when some children could go back
- A group of experts put together by former government chief scientific adviser Sir David King will look at how the lockdown could be eased. Sir David said the group was designed to act as an alternative to the government's own advisers
- Tributes have been paid to a healthcare worker described as the "perfect dad and grandad" who died after contracting coronavirus
- Five rashes, including so-called Covid toe, are affecting some hospital patients diagnosed with Covid-19, a small study by Spanish doctors has found
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