LONDON The United Kingdom is banning travel from the whole of South America and Portugal amid concerns over a new variant of the coronavirus in Brazil, authorities announced Thursday. British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that as of 4 a.m. Friday, arrivals from more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile and Peru, will […]
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Suspension of flights with Portugal is absurd decision by the UK By TPN/Lusa, in News · 15-01-2021 11:28:00 · 5 Comments
Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva considered, on 15 Januar, the United Kingdom s decision to suspend flights with Portugal absurd and illogical , a sudden and unexpected measure whose grounds he said he did not know.
In our opinion, this is illogical. In the first place it is a sudden and unexpected measure and this is a first element of negative surprise. Secondly, it is a measure that hits hard on people who have not been properly warned. It was announced at 5pmon one day to come into force at 4am the next , said the head of Portuguese diplomacy.