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Madeira condemns amber list move as ‘unfair’

Government
Rob Gill
4 June 2021

Madeira has insisted that it “deserves” to stay on the UK government’s green list of quarantine-free destinations because of its remote location and “unique set of circumstances”.

Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal (Credit: Stephen Lammens/Unsplash)

People returning to England from the Portuguese islands after 4am on Tuesday (8 June) will have to quarantine for 10 days when Portugal, including Madeira and the Azores, will be officially moved to the amber list.

But officials in Madeira said being included with mainland Portugal was “unfair” because the island is more than 1,000 kilometres from continental Europe and only has 150 active Covid-19 cases, including no registered cases of the new Indian or Nepal variants.