That’s tan-tastic news! Spain is not expected to be added to the amber-plus list
Holidays to France back ON? Fully-jabbed British tourists ‘won’t have to quarantine on way back from next week’ with country set to be taken off amber-plus list – while Spain is also expected to stay quarantine-free
- There are growing concerns about the increasing number of Beta cases in Spain
- The country is not expected to be added to the amber-plus list like France was
- Double jabbed travellers from amber-list countries don’t need to quarantine
Restrictions on travel from France will likely be dropped next week as the government’s traffic light system is reviewed, reports say.
It is believed that the country will be taken off the ‘amber-plus’ list as government officials seemed to admit the Beta variant threat was contained.
Sources claim the Delta variant prevalent in Britain is spreading faster than the Beta variant in Europe, and would ‘out-compete’ it in the coming weeks, The Times reports.
And despite a rise in case rates, it remains unlikely that Greece and Spain will be put on the amber-plus list.
A decision will be made on August 5 and if Spain stays on the amber list it will mean holidaymakers will not have to quarantine on return (pictured: Calafell, Spain)
Restrictions on travel from France will likely be dropped next week as the government’s traffic light system is reviewed, reports say (pictured: Paris, July 24)
A decision will be made on August 5 and if Spain stays on the amber list it will mean holidaymakers will not have to quarantine on return.
At present double-jabbed holidaymakers returning from France must quarantine for up to ten days because it is on the amber-plus list. But fully vaccinated travellers arriving in the UK from amber-list countries can sidestep quarantine.
There are growing concerns about the increasing number of cases in Spain involving the more vaccine-resistant Beta, or South African, variant.
Some 3.7 per cent of cases in France in the past four weeks have been due to the Beta variant, compared with 6.9 per cent in Spain.
A decision will be made on August 5 and if Spain stays on the amber list it will mean holidaymakers will not have to quarantine on return
There are growing concerns about the increasing number of cases in Spain involving the more vaccine-resistant Beta, or South African, variant
Some experts questioned whether UK officials could have confused the prevalence of Beta in mainland France and in its overseas territories, which include the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. An estimated 90 per cent of cases in Reunion are Beta at present.
A Whitehall source said: ‘There is growing confidence that France can soon go back on the amber list. [But] there remains some concern about the prevalence of the Beta variant in Spain, although we do not yet have the latest data and… no decision has yet been taken.’
Labour said the holiday plans of nearly six million Britons could be ruined if Spain and Greece were added to the amber-plus list.
