The Government announced this Thursday that it will limit the travel of national citizens abroad in the next 15 days. The Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, said that, in coordination with the European Union, he will limit flights and risk entrances throughout the European Union, starting to require testing to Covid-19 and mandatory quarantine, to reduce the contagions in Portugal.
“The Government will adopt the measure of limiting travel abroad for the next 15 days of national citizens to protect them and contribute to the reduction of contagions and the limitation of the pandemic by limiting exits by air, river or land, except in exceptional cases” , announced the Minister of Internal Affairs, in the debate on the renewal of the state of emergency until February 14, in Parliament.
O border closure is one of the measures provided for in the presidential decree, now approved by the Assembly of the Republic. In addition to maintaining the possibility of “conducting a SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test or compulsory confinement of people”, “border controls on people and property” can be established by the competent public authorities, in conjunction with the European authorities. .
The decree provides that these border controls may include “sanitary and phytosanitary controls at ports and airports, with the purpose of preventing entry into national territory or making that entry subject to compliance with the conditions necessary to avoid the risk of spreading the epidemic or overload resources allocated to its combat ”.
Eduardo Cabrita also said, in Parliament, that Portugal will “contribute to the European decision that limits flights and risk entries throughout the European Union and starts to require testing and quarantine, by a decision articulated at European level”, after having suspended the flights to and from the UK and connections to Brazil.
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