British holidaymakers have been describing a race against time to make it back from Portugal before the country was moved to the amber list, at 04:00 BST, the cut-off point for avoiding 10 days’ isolation. In scenes reminiscent of last summer's dash back from mainland Europe, travellers rearranged flights to beat the deadline, with the final commercial service touching down at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, from Faro, little more than an hour before the deadline.
Portugal was added to the UK's green list - indicating it was safe to travel for leisure - three weeks ago. And a woman who flew into London's Gatwick Airport on Monday, having cut short a trip to a wedding with 60 guests, said: "It's a massive inconvenience and obviously costs everyone a lot of money." One couple said it cost between £700 and £800 to come back a day early so they could go to work. The Department for Transport said the situation in Portugal "required swift action to protect the gains made with the vaccine rollout", with the positivity rate for coronavirus tests in Portugal nearly doubling since the travel lists were created.
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Rich nations, including the UK, may have promised surplus Covid vaccines to poorer countries but millions of doses could be wasted if they are sent in one go, according to Unicef. The charity says the developing world does not have resources to distribute and administer them at once and needs a steady supply. It's calling for the G7 group of rich nations to donate 20% of their vaccines by August, saying new variants could emerge overseas with potential to "put us all back where we started". The government says the UK has given £548m to help deliver more than a billion vaccines to lower-middle income countries, while more than half a billion doses of the state-backed Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have been provided around the world on a non-profit basis.

Staff shortages meant many NHS and care workers were exhausted and overstretched even before the pandemic, according to a group of MPs. The health and social care committee says staff in England are now so burnt out it risks the future of the health service. The MPs warn of a lack of planning around how many staff the service will need in the future. Before the pandemic, the NHS faced shortages of up to one in 12 staff, the report says, with 50,000 UK nursing posts unfilled. In adult social care, there were about 112,000 vacancies. "Staff face unacceptable pressure, with chronic excessive workload identified as a key driver of workforce burn-out," says ex-health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the group.

Front pages offer different views of the "race" between vaccines and the Delta variant of coronavirus. The Times says the planned 21 June lifting of England's final restrictions could be delayed by a fortnight, after a "fairly grim" briefing from advisers to ministers. However, the i says figures showing only 2% of people admitted to hospital in England with the variant were fully vaccinated offer the "clearest sign yet that the jabs are breaking the link between infections and serious disease". And the Daily Mirror quotes NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens saying "we are on the home straight" of the vaccine programme, with under 30s being offered jabs.

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