The United Kingdom maintains its de-escalation roadmap and, after the reopening of its non-essential shops and terraces in April, is now preparing to return to normality in international travel.
The earliest date for this, as set by British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
It is May 17, but formulas are still being studied to maintain health security while the economy reactivates. In that sense, Spain and Greece, which are negotiating two separate safe air corridors to reactivate tourism, do not lose sight of the Covid passport, a measure that they want to approve for next month but which at the moment has very difficult to overcome some of the The pitfalls that lie ahead, as only those who are vaccinated could leave the country at an affordable price.
An
"unfair" decision,
according to its detractors, due to the fact that it has not been offered to the entire population, since at the moment the first punctures are beginning to be given to those over 40 years of age. In this, it seems that the British Government is only willing to give in to the point of allowing the vaccination to be supplemented
with extra PCR tests
, making the trip to such an extent that a ticket for the holidays can cost almost 500 euros per British.
That is why the parliamentarians who do not support the project, aware that it would be very difficult to reopen international tourism without any pandemic restriction, have asked that these coronavirus tests be subsidized in some way. Despite the fears generated by the disease, what will largely mark the return to normality for the British will be the possibility of going on vacation to destinations such as Greece or Spain, where many even have residence.
"We are desperate to welcome British tourists again this summer so yes I think we are going to be ready in Spain and it seems that in the UK vaccination is going quite well too. Hopefully this is the summer that we can recover the holidays ", has assured
Fernando Valdés
, Secretary of Tourism of Spain in an interview for
SkyNews
. "
I think that certificates of this type will help us to do so
. Since the pandemic began, we have been trying to implement different ways of achieving safe tourism. It is true that we have already passed several waves of the pandemic, but I believe that now that we have the vaccines is when we are really ready for it. "
In fact, there is talk of the possibility of the United Kingdom negotiating a safe air corridor directly with Greece and with Spain, although everything will always depend on the epidemiological situation that these countries are going through. In the United Kingdom, with more than 60% of the adult population vaccinated, the coronavirus is no longer the main cause of death in the country. "Once we reach a mutual agreement, and we will do so because we are in constant talks with the British authorities, this type of certificate will help tourism a lot this summer," added Valdés. "It could be that we reach a safe air corridor, yes, Spain is making force in the European Commission so that there is an agreement between the Member States and third countries."
The idea of the prime minister, beyond these safe air corridors, is to
establish a traffic light that marks the advance of the pandemic
in the different countries, although the criterion that will prevail on this occasion will be the presence of variants that escape the control of current vaccines.
In this way, when returning from a destination marked in green, the British will only have to undergo a PCR test two days after their arrival and, if they arrive from a destination marked in amber or red, they will request two PCR tests and a quarantine of up to 10 days.
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