The Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, assured this Thursday that the British Government has given a period of ten days for the revision of the quarantine imposed on travelers from Spain and announced that the Government has already presented safe tourist corridors with the aim of "lifting it earlier."
"They have given us a period of ten days for the revision," the minister said in an interview on Onda Cero collected by Europa Press, in which she assured that this is a "temporary" measure that she hopes will be lifted after presenting the safe tourist corridors.
However, Maroto pointed out that the will of the Spanish Executive is that the United Kingdom "advance that decision," since the epidemiological data of vacation areas where British people 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 or Andalusia.
Maroto has criticized that the British Government's criterion for imposing quarantine on Spanish travelers was based on the accumulated incidence throughout Spain and not by areas or according to the incidence in the national health system, which according to Maroto "currently has no pressure." And it is that, as she has argued, only three autonomous communities concentrate more than 70% of all cases.
"There are very important tourist areas in our country, such as the islands, Andalusia, the north or the Valencian Community with very low contagion rates," she insisted.
For this reason, she assured that the Government has intensified relations with the United Kingdom, transferring "the entire epidemiological situation, disaggregating by areas."
The minister has acknowledged that the Government is "concerned," but they continue working to have a tourist season that anticipates "difficult" but that she hopes will respond to the effort that the sector has made to position Spain as a "safe destination."
