There have been some significant changes to the Scottish and UK Government's rules for travellers to the country recently.
Quarantine rules were introduced on June 8, meaning people travelling in Scotland from abroad must fully self-isolate for 14 days upon their arrival. The only exemptions are countries named as part of the 'travel corridor' or is within the Common Travel Area - such as Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
On Saturday, the Scottish Government removed Spain from the exemption list, due to an increased number of cases of coronavirus in the last few days. The decision was also made by the UK Government as well as the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
These are the countries exempted from 14-day quarantine rules:
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Monaco
- The Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Réunion
- San Marino
- Seychelles
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- St Barthélemy
- St Kitts & Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Pierre and Miquelon
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- South Korea
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Turkey
- Vatican City State
- Vietnam
The following 14 UK overseas territories are also exempt:
- The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus
- Anguilla
- Bermuda
- British Antarctic Territory
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Montserrat
- Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Turks and Caicos Islands
It comes as the UK Government warned that immediate restrictions could be imposed on countries other than Spain as a number of European countries see rises in cases.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned: "I'm afraid you are starting to see in some places the signs of a second wave of the pandemic."
He added: "It's vital that when people are coming back from abroad, if they are coming back from a place where I'm afraid there is another outbreak, they must go into quarantine.
"That's why we have taken the action that we have and we will continue, throughout the summer, to take such action where it is necessary."
These are the numbers of confirmed Covid-19 cases last week in certain European destinations, and the rise or fall in infections compared to the week before, as reported by the Daily Record:
- UK - 4,594 (down 7%)
- Ireland - 128 (down 4%)
- Spain - 12,166 (up 92%)
- France - 5,560 (up 49%)
- Italy - 1,602 (up 17%)
- Portugal - 1,614 (down 35%)
- Germany - 3,340 (up 25%)
- Andorra - 12 (up 45%)
- Monaco - 5 (up from 1)
- Switzerland - 708 (up 1%)
- San Marino - 2 (up from 0)
- Malta - 6 (up from 0)
- Greece - 171 (down 36%)
- Turkey - 6,442 (down 7%)
- Liechtenstein - 2 (up from 0)
- Austria - 880 (up 34%)
- Finland - 79 (up 1217%)
- Sweden - 1886 (down 26%)
- Norway - 51 (down 11%)
- Denmark - 226 (up 28%)
- Netherlands - 1,053 (up 90%)
- Belgium - 1,952 (up 71%)
- Iceland - 5 (up from 3)
