'It's unfair': British tourists fume as Portugal removed from safe travel list


  • World
  • Friday, 04 Jun 2021

A man takes pictures at the Dona Ana beach, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Lagos, Portugal, June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

LISBON (Reuters) - Tired of mixed messages, British sunseekers in Portugal reacted with fury and disbelief to their government's decision to reimpose a quarantine regime for travellers coming from the popular southern European destination.

Desperate to shake off pandemic blues, John Joyce, from Newcastle, and his family decided to book a holiday in sunny Portugal as soon as Britain added it to the so-called green list of foreign destinations around three weeks ago.

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