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The decision to make travellers from Portugal quarantine may be “politically motivated”, an infection expert has said. Portugal will be moved from the green to amber travel list, requiring visitors and returning holidaymakers to quarantine in the UK from 4am on Tuesday. The UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps blamed a rising infection rate and the apparent detection of a “Nepal mutation”, increasing concerns about the risk level. But Dr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert in infection and immunity at the University of Edinburgh, suggested the decision may be “retaliation” in res...

Moving Portugal from the green to the amber travel list could be ‘“politically motivated,” an infection expert has said. Arrivals from the popular holiday destination will be made to quarantine from 4am on Tuesday as Portugal moves lists, a decision which caused outrage among both the public and members of the travel industry. According to the UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the move was made due to a rising number of cases in the country...

THE official R rate in England could be as high as 1.3 in the North West -a hotspot hit hard by the Indian variant.It comes after experts warned the m

An Edinburgh University infection expert suggested the decision to move Portugal to the amber list may be politically motivated.

Around a quarter of trusts in England currently have no Covid-19 patients, compared with 2 at the start of the year.