Portugal criticises England quarantine-free plan
Portugal's foreign affairs minister possesses said his country's exclusion from a list of countries that quarantine won't apply for people returning to England is "absurd".
Augusto Santos Silva told the BBC not including Portugal was "senseless and unfair".
The list of countries exempt from quarantine was published on Friday.
Boris Johnson said 14-moment quarantines would remain for countries where the virus was first not under control.
Various other countries excluded from the list, which comes into effect on 10 July, are the All of us, China, the Maldives and Sweden.
Mr Santos Silva told BBC Radio 4's PM program: "We are incredibly disappointed with the decision of the Uk authorities. We believe that it is senseless and unfair.
"It is very absurd the united kingdom has seven circumstances more situations of Covid-19 than Portugal so we suspect this is not how allies and friends are treated."
The Portuguese Primary Minister, António Costa, tweeted evaluating the UK's number of coronavirus cases with that of the Algarve, saying: "You are invited to dedicate a safe visit to the Algarve."
Labour shadow transfer minister Jim McMahon said persons up and down the country were keen for the quarantine methods to be lessened but said "this is a mess".
"First we had the quarantine that these were sluggish to implement, then they said they'd carry out atmosphere bridges," he said.
"Now we visit a plan to let people of 60 or even more countries into England with no reciprocal arrangements."
Scotland and Wales are actually yet to choose whether to ease travel constraints and described the alterations as "shambolic".
The quarantine rules may also stay in place in Northern Ireland for visitors arriving from outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Some of these on the list include popular short-haul destinations such as Turkey and Cyprus, along with long-haul places including Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Vietnam.
However, most countries will require visitors to isolate on arrival or will bar them from entering at almost all.
A list of countries which is exempt from the Foreign Office's advice against "all but necessary travel" from Saturday in addition has been published.
The Foreign Business office is likely to update its travel help with Saturday, including naming which countries could have a reciprocal arrangement with the united kingdom and not require British people to quarantine on arrival.
The introduction of the quarantine on 8 June was met with criticism from the travel, tourism and hospitality industries and the easing of restrictions on arrivals from some countries has been welcomed.
