Passengers with booked flights are no longer sure if they should travel due to threat of quarantineTens of thousands of British holidaymakers were in limbo yesterday as quarantine measures looked all but certain to be reimposed on Portugal a fortnight after it was put on the “safe” list. Figures showed that it had 21.1 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the previous seven days. Anything above 20 cases is a trigger for the imposition of quarantine by the British government. Tourists who booked last-minute holidays believing that the quarantine risk had vanished must await a decision on Thursday during a weekly Department for Transport review. Leading travel industry figures said the threat of quarantine meant that passengers with flights booked no longer knew whether they should travel, while Britons in Portugal faced a dilemma over coming home early.

Source: The Times August 31, 2020 17:15 UTC