PORTUGAL have been removed from the UK’s quarantine list in relief for British holidaymakers.
Anyone returning from the Iberian nation will now no longer have to self-isolate for 14 days.
But it is bad news for Croatia, Austria and Trinidad, as the countries joined France and Spain on the quarantine list.
It comes after it was revealed countries in Europe are registering 26,000 new coronavirus cases a DAY, the director general of the World Health Organization’s Europe office has said.
In a Thursday morning briefing, Hans Kluge said while the “epicentre” of the pandemic had moved to the Americas, the European region still accounted for 17% of the global total of coronavirus cases.
He said: “Every day now the European Region reports an average of over 26,000 new [coronavirus] cases.
“This is due in part to the relaxation of public health and social measures, where authorities have been easing some of the restrictions and people have been dropping their guard.”
Meanwhile, the coronavirus death toll rose by 6 in the UK on Wednesday, with total fatalities numbering 41,403.
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