The Balearic Islands have fallen from the UK's "green" list in just two weeks and have joined the rest of Spain on the "amber" list, with a

ten-day quarantine of the return

(although as of July 19, those vaccinated with a complete schedule will be able to deliver).


The news has meant a new blow for the tourism sector of the islands and affects especially young British people who have not yet received the two doses and who in the last two weeks have been able to travel with pcr to and from, but without mandatory confinement upon return from the UK.


The news comes in the middle of the Covid rebound in the British Isles, which have reached 42,302 cases (the highest number since January) and 49 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Even so, the

Boris Johnson government

plans to lift almost all restrictions starting next Monday.


"Uncertainty is part of our life," acknowledged hours before the announcement the Secretary of Transportation

Grant Shapps

, who last year had to suddenly suspend his vacations in Spain when the quarantine was imposed for the first time on his return.

"Some countries can go to the red list, others to the green list and others can return to the amber list," he said at the time of anticipating the "reverse" in the case of the Balearic Islands, which had been incorporated into all hype and a dish on the green list on June 30, along with Madeira and Malta.


"It is a fact of life that the virus continues to develop and is changing globally," added Shapps, who reiterated that the British Government will review the list every three weeks (the next time it will be in early August).


The macro outbreak of end-of-year trips to Mallorca, with

1,167 infections and 4,796 people in quarantine

at the beginning of July, is behind the decision of the British Government, which in principle will keep all of Spain on the amber list.


Italy, Germany and Austria could, however, join the "green" list, which would serve to increase the range of options for British tourists who save themselves the quarantine on their return.

Canada, Poland, Switzerland or Hong Kong are other destinations that could also go green starting this week.


More than fifty countries - South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Turkey or the United Arab Emirates - remain on the "red" list in the meantime.

Visitors from these countries are required to stay strictly locked up for ten days in hotels and to pay for their stay (around 2,000 euros) upon arrival in the UK.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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