The Transport Secretary has issued an update over travel to France and Spain following new quarantine rules.
On July 27, the Foreign Office advised against all non-essential travel to Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands.
Two weeks later France was removed from the against ‘all but essential’ international travel list.
And it appears that neither France or Spain are going to be reissued a travel corridor pass anytime soon.
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Grant Shapps told LBC: "At the moment I'm afraid France and Spain have both been going the wrong way.
"So just to put numbers on this, we respond when there are about 20 cases per 100,000 of the population measured over a seven-day rolling average. So 20 is the figure to bear in mind."
He added: "I think that the last that I saw of Spain it was up in the 40s and 50s so a long way off that, and France, who... quarantined from last weekend, I'm afraid to say we were right to do that because we've seen the cases continue to carry on up in France as well.
"And in order to put a country back in to the travel corridor, what we say is it needs to stay below that number for a couple of cycles.
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"So a cycle is two weeks long for coronavirus."
Mr Shapps announced on Thursday that travellers from Croatia, Austria and Trinidad & Tobago to the UK would be required to self-isolate for 14 days with the restrictions coming into effect from Saturday at 4am.
It comes as Portugal was given travel corridor status, meaning that Brits will not have to quarantine on their return to the UK from the country.
