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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1830
30 Jul - 5 Aug 2020
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PM Pedro Sanchez is fighting for Spain and has publicly slammed Boris Johnson’s decision to introduce a quarantine for travellers retur ning to the UK. “The decision to impose a mandatory 14day quarantine (10 days was being muted at the time of going to press) on travellers entering the UK from Spain and to warn Britons against travelling to the country is an error based on incorrect epidemiological reasoning,” said Sanchez. Speaking on Spanish TV on Monday night, July 27, the PM said much of the country, a hotspot for UK tourists,
had a lower infection rate than the UK. L a s t y e a r, B r i t i s h tourists made up over a fifth of all foreign visitors to Spain, which relies heavily on tourism. “ T h e e r r o r, i n m y judgement, and hence the lack of alignment of the UK’s response, is based on considering the cumulative incidence of (the virus in) the entire country. “The rebound in coronavirus cases is focused in two regions, Catalonia and Aragon,” Sanchez t o l d Te l e c i n c o t e l e v i sion: “In most of Spain, the incidence (of the disease) is very much inferior to even the numbers registered in the UK.”
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SAFE SPAIN SANCHEZ: Slammed decision. Sanchez went on to s a y : “ We a r e t a l k i n g with British authorities
to try to get them to reconsider.” Hoteliers’ association
Hosbec and the Generalitat Valenciana have also urged Britain to rethink its quarantine demand for Spain. Generalitat president Ximo Puig pointed out t h a t t h e Va l e n c i a n Community, and Alicante Province in part i c u l a r, h a v e a l o w e r Covid-19 incidence than the UK. Puig was “enormously concerned” by the situation and the consequences that Boris Johnson’s decision
would have on this year’s tourist season. Local government minister Simon Clarke denied the Spanish PM’s claim that Britain has miscalculated the data on the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Spain. “We obviously continue to work closely with them and we wish them every success in managing this outbreak, but we’ve seen a very sharp increase in cases in Spain.