FILE PHOTO: A tourist wearing a mask sits at Caes de Sodre, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lisbon, Portugal July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo
LISBON (Reuters) - Britain's decision to persist with a quarantine regime for travellers from Portugal, which has hit the tourism-dependant country hard, is not supported by facts, its foreign minister said on Friday.
Portugal initially won praise for its quick response to the pandemic but a steady count of several hundred new cases per day in and around Lisbon in the past two months has worried authorities at home and abroad.
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