Augusto Santos Silva, the country’s Minister of Overseas Affairs, mentioned Portugal was “quite upset” to have been excluded from a record of nations from which vacationers will be exempt from paying two weeks in isolation right after arriving in England.
Talking to BBC Radio 4 on Friday, Santos Silva claimed: “We are pretty let down with this final decision of the British authorities. We believe it is senseless and unfair. It truly is really absurd.
“The United Kingdom has seven occasions extra cases connected to Covid-19 than Portugal, so we consider this is not the way in which allies and buddies are treated,” he additional.
Though he acknowledged that Portugal has skilled some “distinct outbreaks” of Covid-19 in Lisbon, the minister stressed that places well known with British tourists — such as the Algarve — were being not coronavirus hotspots.
António Costa, the Key Minister of Portugal, also stated the Algarve was a protected put to invest a holiday getaway this summertime.
In accordance to Uk government data, all-around 2.5 million Britons traveled to Portugal final year.
CNN’s Isabela Tejera and Milena Veselinovic contributed reporting.
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