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Scotland will no longer force people arriving from the Madeira and Azores archipelagos to comply with a 14-day quarantine, but maintains the measure in mainland Portugal, authorities announced.
The measure applies from 04:00 on Saturday and aligns Scotland with the rest of the nations of the United Kingdom, namely England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which had already differentiated the Portuguese islands from the rest of the country in terms of travel restrictions.
Meanwhile, all the different regions of the UK have decided this week to exclude Poland, Turkey and the Netherlands Antilles islands of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba from the list of safe destinations, so travelers arriving from there should comply with quarantine from birth. collapsed.
Violators incur fines of up to £ 10,000 (£ 11,000).
The Scottish authorities had decreed the obligation of quarantine for the people who arrived entirely in Portugal on September 5.
Wales was the first British region to differentiate Madeira and the Azores, where the number of infections has dropped, from mainland Portugal, where there has been an increase in cases.
The British government replicated this concept as of September 12, claiming that more detailed information allowed the islands to be assessed separately from mainland territories and began to institute “regional travel corridors”.
One of the main criteria for exclusion from the list of safe destinations is when the country registers 20 additional cases for every 100,000 inhabitants in a week.
The update of the list of countries and territories with ‘travel corridors’ for the United Kingdom, that is, exempt from quarantine on arrival, made this week, leaves the British only six destinations without travel restrictions as most, including Madeira and the Azores require negative tests or a period of confinement.
These destinations are Italy, Greece, Sweden, Germany, Gibraltar and San Marino.
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