Ryanair and Manchester Airport launch travel legal challenge
The challenge by Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group has been put together after huge frustration within the travel industry at the inclusion of Portugal on the green list in mid-May and then its sudden removal a few weeks later.
The boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, wants Boris Johnson to explain the scientific basis behind the system which he says the government "seems to make up" as it goes along. The government said at the time that moving Portugal from the green to amber list was necessary because of an increase in infection rates in the country, and the emergence of the "Nepal variant", a mutation of the Delta version of the virus first detected in India. There were concerns that vaccines would not work as well on this particular mutation.
But epidemiologists worry that mass travel before more people are fully vaccinated, both in the UK and at holiday destinations, will allow the virus to spread more rapidly.
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