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Portugal was included in the list of countries with “travel corridors” with the United Kingdom three weeks ago, on August 20, but the continuous increase in the number of contagion cases in Portugal will have influenced the decision, which was expected last week . when it exceeded the value of 20 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants.
Whoever arrives in England from the destinations defined by the Government after 4:00 am on Saturday, must comply with 14 days of quarantine. Outside are Madeira and the Azores.
The Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, on the social network Twitter, explained that, thanks to better information management, the British government now has the ability to assess islands separate from mainland territories and has begun to institute “travel corridors regional “.
Scotland had already excluded Portugal from its list of “international corridors” as of September 5, while Wales applied restrictions the day before, but also kept Madeira and the Azores exempt from quarantine.
Northern Ireland’s self-government has yet to announce a change in restrictions, but generally follows London’s decisions.
Portugal today recorded 585 new cases of infection related to the covid-19 pandemic and the previous day it had registered 646, more than double those registered on Tuesday.
The effective transferability index (Rt) is currently at 1.12, a value considered risky.
The epidemiological situation of covid-19 in Portugal has worsened since mid-August, according to a study by the Directorate General of Health (DGS) and the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA), with 3,909 new infections registered between 17 and on August 30.
The list of “travel corridors” currently has fewer than 70 countries and territories, and since July Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Jamaica, Croatia, Austria and the island of Trinidad and Tobago, France, the Netherlands, Monaco and Malt. Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba, Belgium, Andorra, Bahamas, Spain and Luxembourg.
In the previous weeks, Cuba, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Brunei and Malaysia were added.
