People returning to the UK from Spain (including islands) from midnight tonight will need to self-isolate for two weeks, with the country removed from the travel corridors list.

Following a significant change over the last week in both the level and pace of change in confirmed cases, Spain has been removed from the list of countries where people do not have to self-isolate when arriving into to the UK.

People currently on holiday in Spain are encouraged to follow the local rules, return home as normal and check the FCO’s travel advice pages on GOV.UK for further information.

FCO is advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain – this does not cover the Canary Islands or the Balearic Islands because travel advice is based on the risk to the individual traveller and COVID-19 infection rates are lower there than mainland Spain.

People will still need to self-isolate when returning from anywhere in Spain as well as the Canary and Balearic Islands because self-isolation arrangements are put in place on the basis of risk to the UK as a whole.

Mire than 900 new cases of the virus we’re reported in the country on Friday.

Spanish officials have also warned a second wave could be imminent as major cities have seen cases surge.

THE UK’s biggest tour operator TUI has cancelled all flights to Spain after new quarantine rules were announced.

Rory Boland, editor of consumer rights magazine Which?, said many travellers would be “deeply angry” that the government did not make the decision 48 hours earlier “before tens of thousands of them flew off for their summer holidays in Spain”.

“Many would not have travelled if they had known they’d face 14 days of quarantine on their return,” he said.

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