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The Government announced this Thursday that it will limit the travel of national citizens abroad in the next 15 days. The Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, said that, in coordination with the European Union, he will limit flights and risk entries throughout the European Union, beginning to require tests for Covid-19 and mandatory quarantine, to reduce infections in Portugal.
“The Government will adopt the measure of limiting trips abroad for the next 15 days by national citizens to protect them and contribute to the reduction of infections and the limitation of the pandemic by limiting departures by air, river or land, except in cases exceptional “. announced the Minister of Internal Administration, in the debate on the renewal of the state of emergency until February 14, in Parliament.
The closure of borders is one of the measures provided for in the presidential decree, now approved by the Assembly of the Republic. In addition to maintaining the possibility of “carrying out a diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 or the compulsory confinement of persons”, the competent public authorities can establish “border controls of persons and properties”, in conjunction with the European authorities.
The decree establishes that these border controls may include “sanitary and phytosanitary controls in ports and airports, with the purpose of preventing entry into the national territory or subjecting that entry to compliance with the necessary conditions to avoid the risk of spreading the epidemic or overload of resources ”. destined to combat them, that is, to suspend or limit arrivals from certain sources ”.
Eduardo Cabrita also said, in Parliament, that Portugal “will contribute to the European decision that limits flights and risk entries throughout the European Union and begins to require tests and quarantine, by a decision articulated at the European level”, after having suspended flights to and from the UK and connections to Brazil.
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