Portugal air bridge ‘to open within days’ as travel list is upgraded

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    Portugal air bridge 'to open within days' as travel list is updated

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    Portugal will be contributed to the air bridge list within days, reports have actually declared (Pictures: PA/Getty)

    People living in England will quickly have the ability to delight in quarantine-free travel to Portugal, with an air bridge apparently opening within a matter of days.

    Portugal was omitted from the list of 74 nations where holidaymakers can take a trip without the requirement to separate for 2 weeks after a rise in cases.

    Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is anticipated to reveal limitations will be raised on Monday following lobbying from the Portuguese federal government which was outraged by the ‘absurd’ choice.

    The south-west European nation has actually seen its cases slow to 127 a day, the most affordable given that May 11, although parts of Lisbon have actually triggered issue and stay in partial lockdown.

    Boris Johnson is likewise stated to be thinking about outdoors bridges to American mentions with lower infection rates, as United States day-to-day deaths exceed 1,000 for the very first time given that June.

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    Virus cases in California increased by 12,112 on Wednesday – the greatest single-day boost given that the pandemic begun – however West Virginia, in addition to Oregon and Utah, presently have less than 10 deaths per 100,000 individuals.

    A source informed The Telegraph: ‘Regional air bridges are an alternative for nations with localised break outs. 

    ‘The US is a major issue. If you judge it nationally, the absence of travel could go on for months, which is where individual testing of arrivals could work.’

    Passengers wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, arrive at Heathrow airport, west London, on July 10, 2020. - The British government on Friday revealed the first exemptions from its coronavirus quarantine, with arrivals from Germany, France, Spain and Italy no longer required to self-isolate from July 10. Since June 8, it has required all overseas arrivals -- including UK residents -- to self-quarantine to avoid the risk of importing new cases from abroad. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)

    A traveler using a face mask arrives at Heathrow airport, west London, on July 10, 2020 (Picture: AFP through Getty Images)

    Portugal air bridge 'to open within days' as travel list is updated

    The Portuguese federal government was apparently outraged after being missed out on off England’s ‘safe list’ (Picture: Getty Images)

    LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 21:Transport Secretary Grant Shapps arrives at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London, SW1A on July 21, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

    Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will make a statement on air bridges on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)

    Downing Street was required to reject reports that Spain was on the brink of being axed from the list of safe nations on Wednesday.

    The nation’s Covid-19 rates have actually tripled given that lockdown limitations were reduced 3 weeks earlier, with issue surrounding Catalonia and Aragon.

    Mr Shapps has actually validated the federal government will be making ‘more announcements’ on global travel on Monday.

    Speaking to Sky News, he stated: ‘I will be talking more about the method forward on things like global travel passages then.

    ‘But now, each week actually, we are reviewing and, where required, updating the list of countries it’s safe to take a trip to.’

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