Portugal is about to climb the UK’s safe list, while cutting Croatia and Austria.
After a long wait for tourists and the tourism industry, Portugal will be a quarantine-free destination for Britons starting at 4 a.m. on Saturday, the government said. The southern European country was the only addition to its safe corridors after Thursday’s most recent review.
The following countries will be eliminated due to increased Covid rates:
This means that the British can now travel to Portugal without quarantine upon their return. Similarly, the Portuguese can make a stopover in England without restrictions. Once the measures come into force.
Meanwhile, “If you arrive in England from Portugal before four o’clock in the morning on 22 August, you will have to isolate yourself,” he says.
“Five months after the UK passing government warned about travelling to Portugal, tourists can pass there and not get quarantined when they return,” says The Independent.
“This means that agencies can re-sell holidays in the Algarve, Lisbon, Madeira and the Azores.
On the other hand, travelers returning or arriving from Croatia or Austria from Saturday face strict 14-day isolation. Once again, travelers will be in chaos, with only 36 hours for those who need to return home before this deadline.
For the English journalist John Stapleton, this means “another 20,000 people in Croatia struggling to pass houseArray … And the only flights from Zagreb will charge them a fortune.”
As for the 11th hour decision, he told BBC World News: “It would be great if you could give them a little more time, but I sympathize with the government like we’ve never been here before.”
For Portugal, she said, she’s “a little behind in the day,” as summer is almost over and English schools were due to return in September.
“Anyone returning to the UK from Trinidad and Tobago will have to be quarantined for 14 days after cases on the Caribbean islands more than doubled in a week,” Sky News reports.
The travel recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be replaced accordingly from Saturday and will have an effect on travel insurance to those destinations. In the case of Portugal, favorably. For Croatia, Austria and others, the FCO will advise 12 other people promoting non-essential travel.
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warned of the option of additional delays.
“As with all air transport countries, things can be replaced quickly,” he tweeted. Speaking of experience, he added, only if you are satisfied with the concept of quarantine for 14 days, unexpectedly.
Shapps had to isolate himself after a holiday in Spain, when he was suddenly taken off the list of runners last month.
This list, since July, has allowed others to take unin quarantined vacations in dozens of destinations. These are removed and added based on your Covid infection point. Shapps says the threshold is 20 instances per 100,000 people in the last seven days.
“The average number of cases in Croatia increased to 29.5 cases, consisting of another 100,000 people last week, compared to 13.54, consistent with 100,000 a week ago,” Sky News reports. “Austria’s rate almost doubled last week.”
The increase in new levels of infection in many countries in Europe and beyond already noted that Spain was removed from the British list on 27 July. Then Luxembourg on 31 July. The restrictions returned to Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas on August 9. Then, for travelers from France, the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba on August 15.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, trends in Covid infection for more than 15 weeks include:
Is an ebook an end-of-summer stay in Portugal? Yes, says Rory Boland, editor-in-chief of customer rights magazine Which? Trip.
But he advises in a tweet:
1) Make sure you can quarantine and go back in case of unpredictable changes.
2) Book a package, stay with a supplier and purchase insurance
Also be sure to comply with Covid’s local protection rules. Masks are mandatory on public transport, supermarkets and many other crowded indoor areas. See other social distance curtains on the Visit Portugal website.
The “Clean – Safe” label of Tourism of Portugal is there to give holidaymakers more confidence in accommodation and other tourist services. Then they build that trust.
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