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 UK s 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 government s travel traffic light system.
Seven countries are also being added to the red list from the amber list. They are: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Egypt, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Sri Lanka.
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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 would continue its push to get Cayman on the green list when it is reviewed again in three weeks.
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.
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Scots will no longer be able to jet off to Portugal without the need to quarantine (Image: Getty Images)
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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, British officials announced on Thursday, complicating the plans of Britons hoping for easy getaways to the country this summer.