The government may lift quarantine for travellers returning from Spain in 10 days' time giving new hope for holidays.
Spain's Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said today that British Government has given a period of ten days for the review of the quarantine imposed on travellers from Spain.
She said that the government has already presented safe air corridors with the aim of "lifting it earlier".
"They have given us a period of ten days for the review," said the minister in an interview on Spanish radio station, Onda Cero.
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She said the quarantine was a "temporary" measure that she hoped will be lifted after presenting the safe tourist corridors.
The Minister said the Spanish Executive still wanted the United Kingdom to "advance that decision", since the epidemiological data of holiday areas where the British usually travel are "at low risk" and even "better" than the United Kingdom as is the case of the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community and Andalusia.
Reyes Maroto has criticised the British Government's criteria for imposing quarantine on Spanish travellers based on the cumulative incidence throughout Spain and not by areas or according to the incidence in the national health system.
And she says more than 70 per cent of the cases are in three autonomous communities only.
"There are very important tourist areas in our country, such as the islands, Andalusia, the north or the Valencian community with very low infection rates," she insisted.
The minister acknowledged that the Spanish Government is "worried" but it was hoped to still have some sort of tourist season and to position Spain as a "safe destination".
