LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Britain has removed Portugal from
its "green list" of countries that do not require quarantine on
return due to rising case numbers and the risk of a mutation of
the Indian variation, Transport Minister Grant Shapps said.
"The positivity rate has nearly doubled since the last
review in Portugal," he told broadcasters on Thursday.
"And (...) there's a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called
Indian variant which has been detected and we just don't know
the potential for that to be a vaccine defeating mutation."
(Reporting by Paul Sandle and William James)