LISBON — Portugal’s foreign minister said Spain’s decision to require a negative COVID-19 test for people crossing the border must have been an error, Lusa news agency reported on Monday.
Portugal had asked Spanish authorities for clarification on “what could only have been a mistake,” Portugal’s foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva said.
“We have asked Spanish authorities for clarification and await it being granted as quickly as possible, because if not we will need to adopt equivalent reciprocal measures,” Santos Silva said, adding that “the epidemiological situation in Spain is, at the moment, worse than what we are living in Portugal.”
The land border between the two…
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