MADEIRA AND THE AZORES ARE ALSO OFF THE UK’S GREEN LIST, TVI ADVANCES

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Portugal’s removal from the UK’s green list of safe destinations for travel also includes the two Portuguese archipelagos, according to TVI.

The news that the country would fall back to the amber list was advanced today by the British press, but no official announcement by Boris Johnson’s government has yet been made.

These changes are expected to take effect from next week, June 8th. This change implies that all British travelers departing Portugal for the United Kingdom will have to comply with a 10-day quarantine.

This ‘step back’ will be due to the increase in covid-19 infections in Portugal and the appearance of new variants in Europe.

It should be recalled that the recent inclusion of Portugal, on May 17, on the green list allowed the British to travel to the country on non-essential trips, without the need to carry out quarantine when returning home.

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16 Responses

  1. Absolutely ridiculous that Madeira and Azores included! Since May 14th not one person from UK has tested positive.

  2. Agree with you Jill. Let’s hope Madeira gets back on green list asap! Feel for poor Tobi will he still get to U.K for his Nan’s funeral? ??

  3. But vaccinated people from the UK have not been tested on entry, so no-one knows if they are carrying the disease or not.
    And in my observation most of them do not wear masks or socially separate.

    1. I wish I was so sure of my facts. I was under the impression that unless you had a valid negative test certificate you were tested on arrival at Funchal and in my observation when I was there in December and January they were wearing masks and distancing perhaps more diligently than than the locals. Why do you never seem to make these observations about other nationalities ?

    1. But UK is nearly 7 x population so they’re about equal on infection rates

    2. … Ok Richard if your “Observations”/Utter Guesswork are correct? and there has not been any significant rise in cases lately then Where is the Problem ?? … And even if cases do rise the Vaccine seems to have been doing its job in preventing deaths and keeping people out of hospital, so again no “real” problem !! …

  5. Confirmed on gov.uk site that Portugal including Madeira and Azores is moved to amber list. Shameful behaviour by UK government in my opinion.

  6. We feel safer here on holiday in Madeira than we did at home. The rules of social distancing and face masks are being followed. We are double vaccinated so did not need to test on entry but as we had been social isolating at home for several months it is very doubtfull we would bring the disease here. We feel so sorry for the locals who will suffer financially from the loss of tourism. To be honest, we were expecting our government to put more places on the Green list this week as most hospitalizations at home now seem to be unvaccinated people. Let’s hope the government changes their minds soon.

  7. If the UK government are about to treat the Canaries and the Balerics separately to Spain and the Greek Islands separately to Greece then I think the same should be done with Madeira

  8. Grant Shapps said that Portugal was taken off the green list for 2 reasons (i) rising infection rate and (ii) the potential spread of the Nepal variant (???). Is this likely to be in Portugal? This seems a ludicrous reason!
    As tourists (even from the mainland) are tested on entry I cannot see why Madeira is lumped in with the mainland

    1. There is no “Nepal variant” nor “Nepal mutation” as mentioned by Schapps. There is a lineage of the Indian variant, as there are hundreds of lineages that show up every week everywhere. There is nothing particular with this one according to portuguese scientists.

      1. Antonio, please don’t try to make sense of any utterance from Grant Schapps, a failure in any position and no improvement in his present role of Transport Minister. Or in this case, the Lack of the Need of Transport Minister.

  9. Everyone has the choice to travel to an amber listed country or not. It’s not illegal. So there is not need to change plans simply because the UK government alters it’s assessment of the risk presented by returning travellers. Just follow the UK rules as you have to follow the rules to enter Madeira. Until Covid becomes background ‘noise’ and not headline news the ‘traffic light’ status will continually change to reflect UK government assessment of risk. That’s what it is there for. However if you think it’s nonsense, then it should make no great difference to your plans. You have the choice.

  10. Oh well, I’ll change my plans to have two weeks hols in Bolton instead then, no tests required, no isolation needed, no enforced controls whatsoever. It must be so much safer than Madeira.

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