Spain no longer has any COVID-19 entry requirements for anyone arriving into the country from the EU or Schengen area.
Holidaymakers from the UK, and other countries outside the EU or Schengen area, need to show proof of full vaccination, or proof of recovery, or a negative antigen test result (taken in the 24 hours before departure) or a negative PCR test (taken in the 72 hours before depature).
Health screening is in place at all Spanish airports and ports to ensure passengers comply with these rules.
So far, the Spanish government has ruled out the reintroduction of the indoor masks rule, which was lifted in April for bars, shops and restaurants, but not on public transport.
While Britons can currently just wear them if they choose to, the possibility of forcing people to wear masks inside remains on the table with central government.
Catalonia, for example, has asked the elderly to voluntarily wear masks indoors and the Canary Islands are not ruling out demanding mask indoors again “to protect the vulnerable”.
And the Costa del Sol is also considering masks being reintroduced indoors.
As the Bulletin reported last week, Spain's Minister of Health, Carolina Darias believes people should consider wearing masks indoors again to maintain protection due to an increase in both infections and hospital admissions.
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The Spanish government just love the control of the mask. I suspect although they would love to bring back the pointless face nappy, they won't because it won't be very popular with tourist who reside in countries that have excepted that Omicron is a cold. Most people won't to move on, you will still have the crazies. A minority that won't the world turned upside down for them. This also proves the vaccine is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. I suspect the Spanish government to bring the muzzle back in October and be pushing for pointless booster number 16 or whatever the crazies are upto now. If you have had the virus, why would anybody want another dodgy vaccine when you have natural immunity. This just stinks of governments pushing to get rid of the millions of vaccines sitting in the bargain bin. Desperate to get rid of them. I'm sure there'll be enough idiots that will help get rid.
GOOD...If this is nessicary......THEN this for me is NO problem....IT'S for ALL of US....
The jury is still out on their true effectiveness during the pandemic, especially as many people didn’t wear them properly, nor replaced them regularly enough. They gave a false sense of security resulting in people being less vigilant about hand hygiene as well as their own mouth and nose hygiene necessary for the mask to be most effective. For many people they just became strap-on snot rags!
I agree that Masks and various Covid precautions be introduced immediately. Already Bus and Pharmacias are requiring passengers and customers to wear masks. This Virus has mutated to different variants Bring back restrictions now to prevent further deaths.