The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced this morning (Monday) that travellers from the UK will now require to be fully vaccinated or have a PCR test to enter Spain from July 1st due to the increase in cases and the worrying data in the UK.
If you are travelling from the UK and can prove you have been fully vaccinated with an official digital or printed certificate, no problem you can enter with just the QR code from your locator form.
If you haven’t been fully vaccinated you will need to also produce a negative PCR test result taken within 72 hours of landing in Spain and its territories, including the Canary and Balearic Islands.
Sánchez has justified the measure in the fact that the data arriving from the United Kingdom are worrying because they have infections "well above 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days, and still increasing".
Due to this, he said that a decision had to be made to apply additional measures in Spain and has specified that he has announced it now so that tour operators and airlines take it into account.
This measure, along with proof of recovering from the virus in the last 6 months, is the same required by Europeans to travel around the EUwhich also comes into effect on July 1st.
