Travellers from mainland Portugal to England will have to quarantine from 04:00 BST on Saturday, just weeks after the country was put on the safe list.
Wales and Scotland had already imposed the mandatory two weeks of self-isolation earlier this month.
Quarantine-free travel is still allowed from the Portuguese islands, the Azores and Madeira.
Meanwhile, Sweden has been made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.
Portugal, one of the UK's most popular holiday destinations, was given an exemption from UK quarantine rules as recently as 22 August.
But since then the infection level has been rising. It now has 28.3 infections per 100,000 people, above the threshold of 20 per 100,000 people which the UK generally uses for adding countries to the quarantine list.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that because of "enhanced data" the government was able to assess the infection rates of islands separate to their mainland countries.
He also stressed that travellers must fill out the Passenger Locator Form on arrival to the UK, a day after the prime minister said enforcement of this part of the quarantine rules would be stepped up.
"It is a criminal offence not to complete the form and spot checks will be taking place," Mr Shapps said.
Figures show that nearly 2 million spot checks have been carried out to ensure travellers have filled out the form, and almost 150,000 calls and text messages were made to check they were quarantining.
Successful contact, where the traveller has been spoken to or responded to a text, was made 66,773 times with 64,800 people confirming they were self-isolating. Just 34 fines have been issued.
People travelling to England, Wales and Scotland from Hungary and Reunion will also be required to self-isolate, while England is additionally requiring arrivals from French Polynesia to quarantine.
Hungary has a seven-day rate of 31.6 infections per 100,000 people and French Polynesia's rate is 71.3.
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