Quarantine on travellers returning to the UK from Spain may be reduced to 10 days

Travellers don masks at Malaga airport (CREDIT: Olive Press)

THE quarantine on travellers returning to the UK from Spain may be reduced from 14 days to 10.

According to The Telegraph, the British government could announce a new policy this week to assess arrivals from at-risk countries.

The new protocol would see holidaymakers travelling from Spain and other countries get tested eight days after arriving home.

If their test comes back negative, they will be allowed to end their quarantine two days later.

It means they would have spent 10 days self-isolating instead of 14.

The plans are reportedly being finalised by ministers this week.

It comes after Britain’s shock announcement on Saturday that all travellers returning to the UK from Spain after midnight that very night would have to self-isolate for 14 days.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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