'Having blanket country bans is very, very challenging especially with a country the size and scale of Spain'
The head of tour operator TUI on the return of quarantine for travellers from Spain
The government has announced that travellers returning from Spain to the UK will now have to quarantine for 14 days, following a spike in the number of new cases in Spain. Andrew Flintham, managing director of TUI UK and Ireland, told Justin Webb he is opposed to "blanket country bans" which are "very, very challenging" and called for a "proportionate risk based approach" to quarantine. He also said: "We've called for a regionalised policy...so that in effect... if there are areas where the infection rates are lower and therefore safe travel can go ahead, which clearly the travel advice says it can, we would look to have a consistent approach that would mean the quarantine wouldn't apply for those places".
Credit: Reuters
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