LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has removed Portugal from its “green list” of countries that do not require quarantine on return due to rising case numbers and the risk of a mutation of the Indian variation, Transport Minister Grant Shapps said.
“The positivity rate has nearly doubled since the last review in Portugal,” he told broadcasters on Thursday.
“And (…) there’s a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant which has been detected and we just don’t know the potential for that to be a vaccine defeating mutation.”
(Reporting by Paul Sandle and William James)
