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Contrary to what has been advanced in recent days, England kept Portugal on the list of British air brokers
This means that British tourists are not required to remain in quarantine for 14 days after their stay on Portuguese territory.
“We continue to keep the list of travel corridors under constant review and will not hesitate to remove countries if necessary. However, there are no additions or deletions today,” revealed Grant Shapps, Secretary of Transportation on Twitter.
This week, Portugal was anticipated to leave the British air corridoras the number of cases in Portugal had exceeded the limits set by the United Kingdom. Some British tourists in the Algarve had already anticipated the departure of the hotel units, due to the uncertainty of the closure of the air corridor.
The British press began speculating this week about the possibility of Portugal and Greece being excluded from the list of countries with “travel corridors”. The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, acknowledged this Wednesday that the cases of covid-19 are increasing in Portugal and that there is a greater risk of transmission of the disease.
Portugal only was included in the list of countries with the “travel corridors” with the UK two weeks ago, on August 20, despite pressure from the Portuguese government and the tourism sector on the British authorities.
The necessary requirements to integrate the British air corridor
The decision to add or remove a country is made after an analysis by the Common Biosafety Center, which uses the level of 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days as its main indicator, but also takes into account other factors, such as prevalence. , level, rate of change of confirmed positive cases Initially it was carried out every three weeks, now the re-evaluation of the measures is carried out weekly.
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.
Meanwhile, Scotland has gone so far as to require quarantine for people arriving from Greece starting today following an increase in contagion cases in that country, including several Britons who have since returned from vacation.
Cuba, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Brunei and Malaysia have been added to the list of safe countries.
the situation can change at any time
The SIC correspondent, Emanuel Nunes, explains that the situation can change at any time. The British government can make modifications to the list, if it deems it necessary.
