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The increase in the number of new cases of infection may lead Portugal to return to the UK travel “black list”, warns the English press. The country has an average of 18.1 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, very close to the limit of 20 infected per 100,000 inhabitants stipulated by the UK to maintain an air corridor with a particular country.
The title of liveblog The Telegraph travel agency mentioned the situation in the country at 3:49 pm: “Portugal may lose its air corridor [com o Reino Unido] this week”. Citing a leader of a tourism consultancy, the prestigious English newspaper, a supporter of the conservative government of Boris Johnson, assures that Portugal is very close to the limit set by the United Kingdom to include a country on the “black list”.
“Portugal is likely to return this weekTo the black list, especially since “the country is preparing to enter a state of contingency on September 15,” says Paul Charles, leader of The PC Agency.
1/2 Saturday update: sadly #Portugal is rapidly returning to the red zone. His government prepares the state of contingency as of September 15. It is very likely to be added to #UK quarantine since September 5. #Greece now it has turned amber. #Italy cases on the rise but still green for now. @LaPCAgency pic.twitter.com/8c31tz2ahN
– Paul Charles (@PPaulCharles) August 29, 2020
“The country has not been able to manage the number of cases in the last 15 days as more tourists entered Portugal, especially in Lisbon and Porto,” adds Charles. The same expert had already made the same kind of statements to the Daily Mirror on Friday.
The Boris Johnson government announced on Thursday the removal of Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Jamaica from its list of air corridors. In other words, all British tourists or foreign nationals who have traveled to these countries are subject to a 14-day quarantine when they return to the UK.
Portugal was removed from the UK “blacklist” on August 22, when the country had 241 new cases. This Saturday 374 new infections were registered, after the 401 that was revealed on Friday (the highest number since July 10) and the 399 on Thursday, figures that, in addition, The Independent reported as “worrying“Because of the” status “that Portugal has in the British air corridors.
Pulmonologist Filipe Froes had also warned of the possibility of Portugal being excluded from corridors deemed safe by the UK. “It took us too long to gain the safe tourist corridor to the UK and, as we have not maximized the ability to eliminate drive chains in the community, we run the risk of losing the corridor again, ”said the coordinator of the Covid-19 crisis office of the Ordem dos Médicos. And he warned: “The second wave is approaching and we will arrive with less capacity than we wanted.”
Portugal “runs the risk of losing the safe corridor” against the United Kingdom, warns Filipe Frois
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