{"id":114068,"date":"2021-05-11T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=114068"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:14:19","slug":"spain-plans-to-allow-britons-to-enter-without-pcr-test-from-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/spain-plans-to-allow-britons-to-enter-without-pcr-test-from-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain plans to allow Britons to enter without PCR test from May 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (Reuters) -Spain plans to lift its requirement for Britons to present a negative coronavirus PCR test upon arrival from May 20, provided that the infection rate in Britain keeps declining, the Spanish tourism minister said on Tuesday.<\/p><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A passenger arrives at Adolfo Suarez Barajas airport on the first day of mandatory negative PCR test for all travellers arriving from countries with a high risk of contracting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Madrid, Spain, November 23, 2020. REUTERS\/Sergio Perez<\/figcaption><p>\u201cIt will allow the opening of the British market so they can come to Spain,\u201d Reyes Maroto told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting, offering a glimmer of hope to the flagging tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>Plans to lift the PCR requirement form part of a broader revision of EU regulations on non-essential travel from outside the bloc, which Maroto expected to be approved by May 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (Britons) could come from May 20 onwards without a PCR if the incidence rates are below the range currently under review, which is around 50\u201d cases per 100,000 people, Maroto said.<\/p>\n<p>She also stressed that Spain must bring down its own infection rate to encourage the British government to lift restrictions on returning travellers.<\/p>\n<p>Britain will allow international travel to resume from May 17 after months of banning most trips abroad, but Spain is not included in its so-called \u201cgreen list\u201d of safe destinations.<\/p>\n<p>That means Britons returning from a trip to Spain would have to self-isolate on arrival for 10 days and take two COVID-19 tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what we have to do to allow British people to travel to Spain, which is to lower the cumulative incidence and keep on vaccinating,\u201d Maroto said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 18 million British tourists travelled to Spain in 2019, making up the biggest group of foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>But that fell to just 3.2 million in 2020, a year in which international tourism to the country slumped 80% amid a succession of restrictions on travel.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-spain-britain\/spain-plans-to-allow-britons-to-enter-without-pcr-test-from-may-20-idUSKBN2CS1NY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (Reuters) -Spain plans to lift its requirement for Britons to present a negative coronavirus PCR test upon arrival from May 20, provided that the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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