Confirming Britain's "difficult but decisive decision" - first revealed by The Sun - Grant Shapps warned 68 cases of the Indian "Delta" variant had been identified in Portugal.
But he described the British government's latest move as "a bit unfair", adding: "There are families bringing out kids and people who booked their holidays already, and the stress involved for people, including myself.
He continued: "I think the problem for people even if they try to scrabble around for flights back home before the new rules kick in and they have to quarantine is going to be that they’re tied to having Covid tests before they go and there’s a two to three-day waiting lists because the Covid test centres here are overloaded.
"Now [business] is going to go down to literally nothing again, probably just a couple of hundred quid a day I would imagine, and people are going to disappear this weekend. It’s a disaster."Charlotte Cheddle, a 22-year-old from England, will have to quarantine for 10 days when she flies back next week.
And the president of the Algarve Tourist Board, Joao Fernandes, described the UK's decision to downgrade Portugal from green to amber as a "severe setback".
Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)
No sympathy
You have to laugh 🤣
As other countries catch up with their vaccine programmes the only thing BorisJohnson and the Tories Conservatives are still world beating is 128,000 excess deaths and a trashed economy. Johnson more interested in wallpaper than letting the bodies pile high
gove wanted to go to a football match so johnson 'fixed it for him'.
Well u wanna go on holiday amid a pandemic which is FAR from over.
When will these idiots realise the pandemic is not over and taking your holidays will be a risk......
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