(Madrid) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday strongly criticized the UK’s decision to impose a quarantine on all travelers from Spain since Sunday, deeming it “unsuitable”.
Posted on 27 July 2020 at 18 h 14
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In an interview with private television Telecinco, he argued that places very dependent on British tourists such as the Balearic Islands, the Canaries and the regions of Valencia and Andalusia were safe destinations.
These regions “have a cumulative incidence [du coronavirus] lower than that currently recorded in the UK, which means in epidemiological terms that these destinations are in fact safer than the UK”, said he said.
The Prime Minister argued that the distribution of cases of contamination in Spain was “uneven” because around two thirds of new cases are identified in two regions, Aragon and Catalonia, in the northeast .
He said his government was in discussions with the British leaders “to try to convince them to reconsider a measure which in our opinion is inappropriate”.
The decision of the United Kingdom to impose since Sunday a quarantine on all travelers from Spain had the effect of a thunderclap, the British constituting the first contingent of foreign visitors to Spain , with 18 millions in 2019.
“We will continue to work with the British authorities”, stressed Pedro Sanchez, affirming that “in a good part of the Spanish territory, there is a rather important control of the epidemic”.
