Spain to allow British holidaymakers without PCR tests from May 24

Our Foreign Staff
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Two people at the exit of the T1 of the Adolfo Suarez airport, Madrid-Barajas during the first working day after the state of alarm, on 10 May, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. After the end of the second state of alarm, which took place yesterday, Sunday 9 May, the Community of Madrid has eliminated the perimeter closure and the curfew, but maintains the limitations in basic health areas and delays the closures: commercial at 23:00 and hospitality at 00:00 hours. On the other hand, the Ministry of Health recommends that the participation in groups of people for the development of any activity or event of a family, social or recreational nature, both on public roads and in public spaces, is limited to a maximum number of six people unless they are cohabitants. In Madrid, the use of masks is also compulsory. - Europa Press News
Two people at the exit of the T1 of the Adolfo Suarez airport, Madrid-Barajas during the first working day after the state of alarm, on 10 May, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. After the end of the second state of alarm, which took place yesterday, Sunday 9 May, the Community of Madrid has eliminated the perimeter closure and the curfew, but maintains the limitations in basic health areas and delays the closures: commercial at 23:00 and hospitality at 00:00 hours. On the other hand, the Ministry of Health recommends that the participation in groups of people for the development of any activity or event of a family, social or recreational nature, both on public roads and in public spaces, is limited to a maximum number of six people unless they are cohabitants. In Madrid, the use of masks is also compulsory. - Europa Press News

Spain will allow travellers from Britain and Japan into the country without a negative PCR test for Covid-19 from May 24, according to an order published in the state gazette on Friday.

Spain is not yet on the UK's green list of countries which people can visit without quarantining upon return. However, it is on the amber list, meaning that visiting the country is legal and travellers who return from Spain can isolate at home, rather than in special quarantine hotels.

Tourism makes up more than 10 per cent of the Spanish economy, and the Government is keen to avoid a second lost holiday season.

On Thursday, Spain's tourism minister, Fernando Valdes, said the country aimed to be ahead of the European Union in using digital vaccine passports to reopen travel.

“Spain will have the digital certificate ready in June. We hope that [the EU] regulation will be approved on the June 21. But from the first week of June, Spain will be able to validate certificates on its borders and expedite certificates to its citizens," he said.

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