Brit holidaymakers could avoid quarantine by flying from 'clean' airports to European destinations
BRIT holidaymakers flying from a limited number of 'clean' airports will be able to enter Europe without having to quarantine or be tested for coronavirus, it's been reported.
Airports not on the Easa list include Edinburgh — the sixth busiest airport in Britain — as well as Belfast, Bristol, Aberdeen, London Southend, Southampton and Cardiff. A global list drawn up by the Easa includes airports in 23 American states, those in the Île de France region around Paris, Lombardy in northern Italy and airports in Catalonia and Madrid in Spain.It is operating a pilot scheme during the last two weeks of June involving tourists from mostly Germany to the Canary and Balearic island and a tracing app will be used.
Travellers from blacklisted airports will face a testing and quarantine arrangement when arriving in Greece until the UK's coronavirus situation improves, he confirmed.Negative tests will result in a seven day self-isolation, while a positive test results in a 14-day quarantine which is supervised.Mr Theoharis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "For the rest of the airports, testing is mandatory and for a certain amount of days you wait for the test results.
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