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Tourists who made it out to Portugal were trying to get home before 4am Tuesday to avoid having to quarantine for 10 days after the European hotspot was downgraded from green to amber yesterday.

Desperate dash to leave Portugal: Nightmare for UK tourists as flights home soar to £700 EACH with family-of-four suddenly facing £1,600 testing bill - after nation was stripped off green list Portugal will come off UK green list for quarantine-free travel next Tuesday after being added on May 17 Britons in Portugal react with fury after being told to dash home before Tuesday or face quarantine  Travellers said the UK move to downgrade Portugal from green to amber was unfair and stressful Tr...

Meanwhile, record number of illegals pouring across English Channel into UK

COVID-19: Portugal removed from green list as seven countries added to red Hopes of a summer holiday abroad have been dashed as no new countries have been added to the UKs green travel list and Portugal has moved to amber. No further countries are being moved from the amber to green status and travellers returning from Portugal will have to quarantine following the review of the governments travel traffic light system. Seven countries are also being added to the red list from the am...

Premier Wayne Panton has described the UK’s decision to keep the Cayman Islands on its amber travel list as ‘unfair’. In a statement, Panton said when Cayman was first placed on the amber list last month, he wrote to UK Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, outlining “Cayman’s amazing record of remaining free of COVID for 327 days and the fact that we now have the ability to do genome sequencing to identify variants in positive COVID results”. Panton said the government wou...

Scots travelling to Portugal now have to self-isolate on return as country moved to amber list Any travellers returning to Scotland from Portugal beyond June 8 will have to self-isolate at home for 10 days. 18:07, 3 JUN 2021 Updated Scots will no longer be able to jet off to Portugal without the need to quarantine (Image: Getty Images) Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscri...

The boss of Britain's biggest budget airline has reacted furiously to the decision to remove Portugal from the "green list" of quarantine-free countries. Johan Lundgren, chief executive of easyJet, said it was "a huge blow to those who are currently in Portugal and those who have booked to be reunited with loved ones, or take a well-deserved break this summer". The CEO deplored the decision, saying: "With Portuguese rates similar to those in the...

Portugal removed from green list as seven countries added to red Sophie Morris, politics reporter Video: Boris Johnson warns UK wont hesitate to move green list countries to amber or red (The Telegraph) Hopes of a summer holiday abroad have been dashed as no new countries have been added to the UKs green travel list and Portugal has moved to amber. © Other Britons hoping to head to the Algarve will now have to quarantine on return to the UK No further countries are being move...

Travelers returning to the U.K. from Portugal must quarantine starting Tuesday, officials say. Tourists at the Santa Luzia Viewpoint in Lisbon last week. On Thursday, Portugal was removed from Britain’s list of countries that do not require a quarantine upon return.Credit...Ana Brigida for The New York Times June 3, 2021, 3:53 p.m. ET Travelers returning to Britain from Portugal or its island territories of Madeira and the Azores will no longer be able to avoid quarantining as of Tuesday, Bri...

The shrinking of the green list, the move to downgrade Portugal and the expansion of the red list wiped £2billion off the value of airlines.