Spain to quarantine all overseas travellers for 14 days
SPAIN has ordered that all overseas travellers will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine when they arrive in the country.
The country announced that the measures will come into place from Friday.
Tourists will have to remain locked in and will only be allowed out for medical reasons or to go grocery shopping.
If they are going to the shops they will have to wear face masks.
It is a blow to Brits hoping to sun themselves in Spain this year.
The UK is set to introduce its own two week quarantine for overseas travellers, except those from France, from June.
Spain’s announcement comes as Ryanair announced that it was planning to restore 40 per cent of its flights from July 1.
The airline said the measure is subject to government restrictions on flights within the EU being lifted and ‘effective public health measures’ being put in place at airports.
Crew and passengers will be required to wear face masks or face coverings, and pass temperature checks.
Queuing for toilets will be banned, but ‘toilet access will be made available to individual passengers upon request’, according to the airline.
Refreshments available to buy on board will be limited to pre-packaged items, and sales will be cashless.
Ryanair said all surfaces in its cabins will be disinfected every night with chemicals which are effective for more than 24 hours.
The airline’s group chief executive Michael O'Leary told ITV's Good Morning Britain: ‘The reality is, we're over the peak of the virus.
‘What we now need is to take effective measures, and effective measures certainly in air travel will involve masks and temperature checks.
‘They're not going to involve measures that have no public support like lockdown, isolation. They're utterly unimplementable anyway because you don't have the police resources to go and check the people.
‘We know from our own customer feedback, there's a huge pent-up desire of families who want to get away to the beaches of Spain and Portugal, where, by the way, there will be no spread of the virus.’
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has advised against all but essential international travel since March 17, while domestic holidays are not allowed due to the Government's lockdown orders issued six days later.