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The President of the Government of Madeira said today that there was an “excess of zeal” in the case of 43 British Airways passengers who had to remain on board the plane in Funchal, as decided by the Aliens and Borders Service.
The Government of the Republic decreed on Sunday that only residents of Portugal or Portuguese citizens and their families can enter the national territory from the United Kingdom, despite being subject to a negative PCR test for SARS-Cov-2.
The restriction, effective as of 00:00 today, was promulgated following epidemiological evolution in the United Kingdom, where a more contagious variant of the new coronavirus, causing the covid-19 disease, has been identified.
“We had suggested to the border authorities and the services of the Central State Administration that we have a room where passengers could stay more comfortably,” said Miguel Albuquerque, at a press conference on the new measures to combat covid-19 in the archipelago Madeira.
According to the official, the SEF services reported that “the passengers would remain inside the plane, where they remained for three hours.”
“Obviously this was all very unpleasant and is not, in fact, in line with the tradition of our hospitality,” he lamented.
For Miguel Albuquerque, “it seemed that a group of bandits was arriving in Madeira.”
I think it is an excess of zeal without need, when what was needed was to articulate an initial situation, since yesterday the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appeared. [domingo]At night, there was not even time to circulate the information and things were done well, ”he said, noting that there was“ misinformation ”when leaving the plane at the origin.
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