First Brits arrive in Malaga on first day of Spain air bridge as holidaymakers flock to beaches all along Costa Del Sol
BRIT holidaymakers are among the first to arrive in Malaga, taking advantage of the air bridge with Spain.
Today marks the first day UK quarantine restrictions were removed from dozens of countries and beaches along the Costa del Sol look to be a popular attraction.
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Brits will no longer need to quarantine for two weeks when returning to England, which the guidelines previously advised.
The quarantine rules were initially introduced last month, which forced all arrivals to give an address for where they would self-isolate, or be fined £1,000.
It is great news for holidaymakers wanting to finally head abroad, with airlines and tour operators offering bargain deals for Brits after four months of grounded flights and closed borders.
Spain is currently trying to get a grip on a second coronavirus wave with Health Minister Salvador Illa saying it had recorded another six active outbreaks in the past 24 hours - with a total of 73 across the country.
Only Asturias and La Rioja out of Spain's 17 regions have not reported an outbreak.
But despite the growing crisis, Fernando Simón, the director of the Health Ministry’s Coordination Centre for Health Alerts , said that further lockdown measures would not be needed.
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“We are not seeing any area in Spain that needs to be confined, it does not seem necessary,” he said on Thursday.
Malaga has recorded the largest outbreak in Andalusia with with 300 cases registered at a Red Cross refugee centre.
Officials though say the situation is under control.
Full list of air bridge countries
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba
- British Antarctic Territory
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- The Channel Islands
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Gibraltar
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- the Isle of Man
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao (Macau)
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Monaco
- Montserrat
- the Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
- Poland
- Reunion
- San Marino
- Seychelles
- South Korea
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Spain
- St Barthélemy
- St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Pierre and Miquelon
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Vatican City State
- Vietnam
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