Portugal travel list and the Delta variant - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Portugal has questioned the UK's decision to remove it from the travel green list to the amber list from Tuesday. This means UK tourists should not visit the country and returnees must self-isolate for 10 days.

Travel bosses said the government is failing to stick to its own rules on warning travellers but what does the latest data suggest about the transmission of the Delta variant?

Martha Kearney heard from holidaymaker Simon Smith, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership Julia Lo Bue, public health director in Kirklees, West Yorkshire Rachel Spencer-Henshall, Imperial College epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson and communities secretary Robert Jenrick MP.

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