Portugal’s Madeira to Allow Visitors With COVID-19 Shots Not Approved by EU

Portugal’s Madeira to Allow Visitors With COVID-19 Shots Not Approved by EU
The small village of Arco de Sao Jorge on Madeira's north coast, Portugal, on March 30, 2017. Rafael Marchante/Reuters
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LISBON—The popular Portuguese islands of Madeira will allow entry to visitors with any of the COVID-19 jabs being administered worldwide and not only with those approved by Europe’s drug regulator, the regional government said on Sunday.

The European Union, which launched its digital COVID-19 certificate last week, has so far authorized only four vaccines—those of Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson.