Portugal Axed from “Green List”
Portugal is due to be removed from the Government’s “Green List”, being placed on the “Amber List” from next Tuesday. It seems completely incomprehensible, given that the British Government just allowed 16,500 English football fans to travel there en masse to watch last week’s Champions League final. The Telegraph has the story.
Portugal is set to be axed from the U.K.’s green list, forcing thousands of British holidaymakers to cancel their trips or cut short their breaks to avoid quarantine.
Ministers are understood to have decided on Thursday morning to add Portugal to the amber list from next Tuesday at 4am after tests revealed what are believed to be previously-unknown variants of Covid. It will mean anyone returning from Portugal after then will have to quarantine for 10 days and take at least two PCR tests.
Sources said ministers had decided that with just weeks to go to the lifting of the final Covid restrictions on June 21, they should “not do anything that jeopardises further unlocking at this point.”
In another report, the Telegraph speculates that cases could be rising in Portugal due to – you guessed it – the British Government’s decision to allow English football fans to attend the Champions League final in Porto.
Two events have served to spark new concerns over rising infection rates in Portugal – and both involved football.
The celebrations for Lisbon’s Sporting Clube de Portugal title win saw thousands of fans gather in a cavalcade before moving into the city centre, many maskless, with few socially distancing and most singing.
It has been linked by experts to a surge in cases in the capital that saw the city centre placed on alert last week, with more than 120 cases per 100,000 people per fortnight.
The second involved the 16,500 English fans who arrived in Porto at the weekend to see Chelsea’s 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the Champions League final. Thousands were pictured ignoring social distancing rules and wearing face masks as they thronged in bars by the Douro river.
The regional health authority for the Porto area said those who were in or near fan zones at the weekend should “reduce contacts over the next two weeks” and look out for Covid symptoms.
Worth reading in full.
What makes this decision so odd is that cases don’t appear to be rising in Portugal – at least, hardly at all.
Stop Press: No countries have been added to the “Green List” today. MailOnline has more.
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Another example that thinking June 21st will be the end of this is way off the mark. Pathetic colour-coded lists will exist for a very long time to come.
Colour coded lists will disappear along with the people.
Oh don’t panic it WILL be June 21st but did they say which year?
Colour coded lists will disappear as soon as the sheeple decide not to travel. Then the few at the very top will have the skies to themselves and the world as their playground. All paid for by those who are happy to give their freedom away in return for what…. certainly not for health safety or democratic governance.
The reality of communism: the elite at the top have everything – the best schools, shops, homes – and, as you say, the world as their playground, while the rest of humanity, much diminished in number owing to disease, vaccines etc., slave to provide them with their every need.
A few top families will rule the world and we’ll exist only to service them.
Those that are left – only 100 million allowed
Four reported “deaths with” in Portugal in the last seven days. I suggest we nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
So did all the footy fans that flew over from Britain bring the pre-and-post-flight-test-evading virus with them and then leave it behind in Porto? Or is this some new variant that only infects Portuguese people?
It disnae add up.
It’s the football variant, obvs!
Correct it’s because it’s complete shite that’s why.
Thats because its total shit, we need to start dragging the so called experts and fake professors to the streets and hanging them while the crowds roar approval.
We must start fighting for our society
We are! Its the lemming majority that are not and who just accept meekly without complaint as they think its keeping them safe. What a nation of spineless jellyfish we have become.
No, it’s the we saw you celebrating and you were not social distancing variant. You have been naughty so we are making you sit on the naughty step. We have found one case so all you muppets who have track and imprison like Michael gove are having to spend 10 days in jail.
All those poor fuckers dreaming of a break away from this shit dictatorship have just found out all those jabs count for shit.
Lots of articles talk about standard travel insurance being invalidated as though it’s some insurmountable problem. It’s quite easy and cheap to obtain travel insurance which will cover you in countries that the government pointlessly advises not travelling to.
All part of the great social engineering project currently being pursued over most of the globe. What will emerge will be a frankenstein monster!
More nonsense to go along with the non pandemic nonsense.
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They’re making it up as they go along.
It’s clear – and should be to everybody – that this has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with population control. The specifics – in this case ‘Portugal’ – are totally irrelevant – the fake justifications could just as easily be selected with a pin, as they are in terms of ‘variants’.
We are complaining about how terrible the decisions are at Covid archipelago.
Covid 19 is no longer centre stage. This is no longer about the virus. This is creeping tyranny. This needs to be stopped. Before it’s too late.
It was never about the virus, It was always about the new “vaccines” – profit and control.
This is more PR to boost uptake in the young, and deaths and heart events among them don’t matter to Boris.
What a load of old dried sp*nk ( excuse the childish terms but if I am to be treated as a child….when in Rome)
Anyone actually believe this 4 cases on a plane guff ? From a test as reliable as a Johnson decorators quote ? Absolute horse shite. All of it. I wonder how Mite are going to have enough people to go knock on the doors of 12,000 football supporters !
Even more FUD..These bar-stewards are not going to stop until we stop them. Power corrupts etc..
Only vigorous, organized disobedience and filling the jails will stop this Government from taking away even more liberties and arrest the trend towards chaos and disorder.
How much longer is it going to take for the penny to drop? We are being mocked and ridiculed. And all the majority do and say is “yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir…”
The government is putting on a masterclass on how to crush the will of a large political minority while creating majority support for an unpopular policy.
Several months ago they came to the decision that Australia and New Zealand were the models to follow and since then they have slowly but relentlessly been tightening the screws and leading the country towards zero covid and closed borders.
Nearly there.
After that it will be a long wait until the rest of the world is vaccinated.
The UK is the latest island prison now.
Two friends have now just lost a lot of money. You might say it was unwise to trust the government but if you can’t trust the government, well… what state are we in 🙁
A totally f”*ked up state, Rob!
Johnson couldn’t even keep his own marriage vows to the one person he was supposed to revere over all others. Why on earth anyone ever thought he’d be a trustworthy politician is beyond me!
Bullsh×t always baffles brains.
A week on from attending another massive protest against restrictions- which the government and media continue to deny happened- having danced, sang, hugged and enjoyed close human contact- we all are perfectly healthy. This is a bit of a dilemma for the government- continue in denial of the marches, or acknowledge the existence and scale of the opposition- but have something to blame for the emergence of another “variant” or “surge”.
Yes, I see the Telegraph still spreading the lie that “social distancing” and masks stop spread.
Psy-ops bullsh*t, once again. Blame football fans, not the authorities, obviously, for an “outbreak” that isn’t! Divide and rule is the game plan the totalitarians are using- and it’s going pretty well, ain’t it?
It was obvious that they were going to do this, the evil scumbags! It’s clear now that this crap is not going to end until we the people end it!
Until the lemming majority stand up and fight this tyranny, it will carry on. When the shit starts to hit the fan once furlough ends and jobs disappear, so mortgages can’t be met and homes are repossessed, maybe they will wake up then. But too late. The aim will have been achieved.
Never mind that, wait until inflation takes off and heads into the low 20%. It’s no fun, I know, I’ve been through it back in the eighties.
Yet another ludicrous and very suspect decision from this government. They have now exceeded their sell by date!
We’re being gaslighted left right and centre. Only revolt will break the psycho’s grip.
I suspect the dedication of Heathrow T3 for red list entries has used up the capacity for testing which goes to show that Green was really Amber with strings attached
Quite frankly those travelling to Portugal should completely ignore this bullying and propaganda. If they do comply with this ridiculous diktat, then they are complicit in turning the UK into a fascist regime. I can see another brain drain to Republican States in USA before long. It absolutely angers me that so many people are stupid enough to be frightened of a corrupt regime.
I’m certainly off to an Open state if they’ll have me.
I’m enjoying seeing the collaborators suffer
Sorry not sorry
I agree, CD; If you support lockdown(s) by being sheep and collaborators, it serves you right.
ATL chatting bubbles again.
Why give space to lockdownist speculation?
And why think the decision “odd”. The decision is completely consistent with the plan of maintaining a sense of crisis into the Autumn when Digital Compliance ID can be introduced.
Interesting, the advert on Lockdown Sceptics for the ‘Pyser’ Covid test at £99!
Incidentally, the same as Collinson were charging in January when I had to pay through the nose for a PCR test and ‘quick test’ (that at another £50 demanded by the Netherlands government) at Heathrow. The company with the monopoly there is Collinson.
Laughing in your face. Pay or don’t fly.
It’s difficult watching this charade about variants. That’s because I know that no variant evades the all-important T-Cell immunity.
Based on rate of linear evolution I’d recommend we come back in a decade or two.
We won’t be needing a different vaccine before then.
If you wish to throw your liberties away for no reason, would you mind doing it in someone else’s garden?
What would happen if we were able to eradicate all the common respiratory viruses through vaccination? Would these inviting environmental niches in old people’s lungs remain unoccupied by pathogens?
Good question. I don’t know.