PORTUGAL has been taken off the green travel list today, throwing thousands of holidaymakers into chaos.
Travel Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the news this afternoon ahead of the Government s three-week review of countries it deems safe for Brits to visit.
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Portugal is believed to be moved onto the amber list later todayCredit: AP
Mr Shapps told Sky: I want to be straight with people - this is a difficult decision to make but in the end we ve seen two things that s caused concern. One is the positivity rate that has nearly doubled since the last review in Portugal. The other is there s a sort of Nepal mutation of the Indian variant that s been detected and we just don t know the potential for that to be a vaccine-defeating mutation and simply don t want to take the risk as we come up to June 21 and the review of the fourth stage of the unlock.