Originally Posted by
Ben1989
It does baffle me. We are travelling to the USA. The 7-day rolling case average is exactly the same for USA & Portugal. USA is obviously amber, though. Also over 43% of America's population is fully vaccinated whereas only 18% of Portugal's is. The other two criteria are genome sequencing and variants which I don't see any difference between the two. If I gave you just the figures and asked which country was green and amber, it'll be backwards.
It's annoying but I'm satisfied they're following some form of logic. I wanted either USA upgraded to green or Portugal downgraded to amber due to what I said above. Otherwise there is an underlying, untold narrative.
What is frustrating is, like yourself, if Portugal does get downgraded, is that your travel insurance is suddenly voided. The government need to step in here.
I guess we'll know more tonight with dates. I've heard 10th June and also 7th June which makes sense as it's exactly 3 weeks after 17th May rules took affect. However, not much notice, at all.
HMG have published their risk assessment which includes the following:
- Infection rate (per 100k population over 7 days)
- Number of new tests (per 1000 population over 7 days)
- Test positivity (calculated using the previous two measures)
- Total vaccinations per 100 population
- Various details about VOC and traveller positivity
See this thread for some more info:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/coro...tests-205.html
Originally Posted by
RGS5526
Has any information emerged about rates of infection among those returning from green countries? Or does Test and Trace not concern itself with such details?
Yes, NHS T&T release this data weekly (starting only a few weeks ago. They publish it every Thursday morning. Interestingly they didn't update the traveller positivity data this week... Again, see the thread mentioned above for more info.