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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' Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced relegation after rise in positive tests in Portugal
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 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 L...
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.