SOME unvaccinated Brits can enter Spain in a huge boost to holidaymakers with plans to visit during the Easter holidays.
Spain has changed its entry requirements to allow unvaccinated Brits who recently recovered from Covid to enter.
Until now, only vaccinated Brits have been able to visit Spain, but the change means people with one or zero jabs can also enter.
Instead, Brits can show proof of recovery from Covid to be allowed into Spain, as long as they tested positive more than 11 days earlier.
Proof of recovery won't be valid if it was taken more than 180 days earlier.
The UK Foreign Office website said: "If you are traveling from the UK to Spain for tourism purposes, are not fully vaccinated but have recovered from Covid in the last six months, you can also use a medical certificate or recovery record to prove your Covid status on entry to Spain.
"At least 11 days must have passed since your first positive Covid nucleic acid amplification test – NAAT (PCR or similar) or rapid antigen test.
"The recovery record or certificate will be valid for 180 days from the date of the positive test."
The change will come as a huge boost to unvaccinated Brits with plans to head abroad during the Easter holidays.
Most read in News Travel
FACE OFF 
Jet2 becomes first UK airline to drop mandatory face masks on flights
Passenger sparks row after refusing to give up empty row so they could sleep
The 3 new Disney World rules that will affect your family holiday
Spain holiday boost as Majorca and Ibiza scrap more Covid rules
However, unvaccinated Brits who have not had Covid within the last six months are still not allowed to enter for tourism purposes.
Spain has also relaxed some other Covid travel rules in time for Easter, as the Balearic Islands have ended most of their restrictions due to an improvement in Covid cases.
Most restrictions in restaurants and nightclubs have been scrapped, including the number of people who can sit together.
Additionally, Spain has extended the list of approved vaccines so any non-EU travellers – which includes the UK – only need to have vaccines approved by WHO to enter.
The vaccines previously had to be EU approved, which included the Pfizer jabs as well as Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax.
Spain has also scrapped its strict Covid rule banning unvaccinated teens aged between 12 and 17.
But be warned, Spain has put an expiration date on vaccine certificates, so only Brits who can prove they were fully vaccinated against Covid within the last 270 days can enter.
Anyone who received their second dose more than nine months ago must have had a booster jab to be allowed in.
The booster must have been given more than 14 days before travelling.
Other countries are lifting their Covid restrictions too – Dubai no longer requires tests from vaccinated arrivals along with Italy and Cyprus.
And Iceland has lifted all of their Covid travel restrictions, including for unvaxxed holidaymakers.
Source: Read Full Article
