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On Monday the first secure tourist corridor will open between Germany and the Balearic Islands
On Monday Spain will open the first “secure tourist corridor” between the Balearic Islands and Germany, permitting foreign tourists to enter the country, the first in what is hoped will be a series of agreements enabling some form of normality to return to the tourism sector.
The offshore Balearic and Canary Islands have recorded significantly lower levels of Covid cases than the Spanish mainland and entered the de-escalation process at phase one, rather than having to go through phase zero, the result being that they are two weeks ahead of the rest of Spain and on Monday will effectively enter the “new normal” the rest of us will move into from the 22nd June when the state of emergency is lifted.
The idea of tourism corridors has been promoted by the EU, keen to see tourism reactivated within the borders of the EU from Monday and focuses on creating specific corridors of movement between countries which have both reached a similar point in their de-escalation processes and see little risk of new contagions in an interchange of citizens between the two countries.
Many EU countries are opening their borders to other member states from Monday, but in spite of pressure from the EU yesterday the Spanish Government remains committed to its pre-established de-escalation plan and will not open mainland borders for international visitors until 1st July, the date on which other European countries will open for non-EU nationals to enter.
Today the Spanish Ministry of Health has issued an order permitting a total of 47 flights between 15th and 30th June to land in the airports of Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza and Mahón in the Balearic Islands. On Monday the first flights will take-off from Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.
Passengers arriving via these special corridors will not be subjected to quarantine restrictions and must remain at their destination for a minimum of five days.
This is being seen very much as a “pilot scheme” ahead of the generalised opening of Spanish borders on 1st July.
Controls in Spanish airports for international tourist arrivals
Today the Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, visited the Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport in Madrid to present the measures being taken by the Spanish authorities in airports from July 1st, which in reality are absolutely minimal.
These may of course, change before the 1st July based on the results of the pilot scheme in the Balearics.
With the removal of quarantine restrictions there will be little in the way of movement control to prevent passengers with Covid from entering Spain and bringing imported cases to the country although efforts will be made to contact trace based on gathering passenger data via a Passenger Location Card system.
From 1st July all Spanish airports will use thermal imaging cameras to take the temperature of international passengers passing through passport controls.
The airports will enforce social distancing measures via the use of signage, public announcements via loud speakers and digital messaging, and designated traffic corridors for passengers, all will be fitted with gel dispensers, passengers and staff must all wear masks and staff will be protected via plastic screening to minimise the risk of contagion.
Financing for these measures has been granted to Aena, the airports operator, through the document published on Tuesday laying out the measures which must be taken as Spain transits into the “new normality” and Aena will supply the manpower and equipment necessary to enforce social distancing and hygiene measures and undertake to gather the necessary data for the Ministry of Health.
This same document also specified that Aena must collaborate with the Ministry of Health in ensuring that contact data is gathered from passengers arriving in the airports as part of a track and trace process to help locate contacts in the eventuality of a Covid outbreak.
Passengers will be required to complete a Passenger Location Card (PLC), which will be given to airport staff as passengers pass through the temperature control and will be digitalised to try and ensure a smoother flow of traffic through the airports.
Data gathered during this process will be exclusive competence of the Ministry of Health.
Aena is also implementing an operational recovery plan following recommendations from the European Commission and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The Ministry of Health has consistently warned of the risks of opening up Spain’s borders to international tourism ; today the virus broke yet another record, with 154,000 new cases reported in a single day and the official fatalities total passing the 420,000 mark. America and Asia now account for 75% of new cases.
But with mounting financial pressure to help the country recover economically and create employment, opening the borders is also seen as a quick way of kick-starting an economic recovery and silencing criticism that the Government is preventing those who want to work from doing so.
Today it was announced that public debt in Spain had hit an all-time high of 1.22 trillion in the first quarter, 98.9% of GDP.
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