British tourists scramble to get to the UK to avoid quarantine

UK holidaymakers scrambled to get flights back home from Portugal on Saturday following the announcement earlier this week that Britain will remove Portugal from its list of COVID-safe travel destinations. As a consequence, thousands of U.K. residents currently on vacation in the country face the prospect of a 10 day quarantine on return. The decision was prompted by rising infection rates in Portugal and worries about new variants of the coronavirus that could prove resistant to vaccines, British officials said. They added that the delta variant, first discovered in India, was causing particular concern. The change will take effect at 4am on Tuesday.