Travellers from Spain need 14-day quarantine in UK
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Travellers teturning to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from Spain will need to self-isolate for two weeks from 25 July 2020 .
Spain has been removed from the list of countries where people do not have to self-isolate when arriving into to the UK, according to a statement issued by UK government .
People currently on holiday in Spain are encouraged to follow the local rules.
” Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s ( FCO ) is advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain . This does not cover the Canary Islands or the Balearic Islands because travel advice is based on the risk to the individual traveller and COVID-19 infection rates are lower there than mainland Spain.”
People will still need to self-isolate when returning from anywhere in Spain as well as the Canary and Balearic Islands because self-isolation arrangements are put in place on the basis of risk to the UK as a whole.
” The UK government has made consistently clear it will take decisive action if necessary to contain the virus, including if the public health risk of people returning from a particular country and not self-isolating becomes too high, ” reads the statement .
Spain is one of the worst hit countries in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 290,000 cases and over 28,000 deaths.
Similarly, Britain has been one of the worst hit country in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 328,000 cases and an official death toll of more than 45,600.
More than 90 million international tourists visited Spain in 2019.
July 26 , 2020
Image : Passengers at the Gatwick Airport in Gatwick, Britain. – Reuters
