Portugal could be put back on the UK quarantine list causing 'chaos and hardship', airline boss warns

Travellers arriving to the UK from Slovenia and Guadeloupe - a French overseas region - will now have to quarantine, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced.The two destinations have been removed from the UK government's travel corridor list, which means that those arriving into the UK from these locations from 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days.Meanwhile, two countries have been added to the travel corridor list - Singapore and Thailand - which means no quarantine is

virus infection rate in Portugal has recently increased to 23.0 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to Wednesday, up from 15.3 a week earlier.Portugal was placed on the quarantine list when it was created at the beginning of July.But the country's number of cases dropped to 14.38 cases per 100,000 people last month - below the normal 20 per 100,000 limit.That saw the Scottish Government take Portugal off the quarantine list on August 22 only for it now to be sin-binned once again

No changes have been made to England's quarantine list, it has been confirmed.The decision not to add or remove any countries to the travel corridor list comes after it was feared there would be chaos for holidaymakers.But this isn't the case for Wales where it has been announced by Health Minister Vaughan Gething that mainland Portugal has been added to the Welsh quarantine list, although the Azores and Madeira will remain exempt.There were concerns that for people in England, Greece could be

14-day self-isolation rule for arrivals from the country could be reintroduced this week following a rise in Covid-19 cases.

coronavirus cases. Some 75,000 UK holidaymakers are thought to be on holiday in Portugal or due to jet there soon after the country was deemed safe to travel to last month.

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Travellers arriving to the UK from Czech Republic, Jamaica, and Switzerland will now have to quarantine, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced.The three countries been removed from the UK government's travel corridor list, which means that those arriving into the UK from these locations from 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days.Mr Shapps declared the change in a series of tweets.