The corona numbers in Spain have skyrocketed since the end of June. Now the country could become a high incidence area for German vacationers – with consequences especially for those who have not been vaccinated.
Reports that the federal government may want to classify the corona hotspot Spain as a high incidence area are ringing the alarm bells on Mallorca, the Germans’ favorite holiday island.
“This decision will mainly be made by Mallorca and the rest of the islands (Balearic Islands),” wrote the newspaper “Última Hora” on Friday. “That would be another blow to tourism”, fears the newspaper “Diario de Mallorca”. Because anyone who has not been fully vaccinated or has not recovered from Corona has to be in quarantine for ten days when returning from a high-incidence area to Germany, which can only be shortened after five days with a negative test.
This particularly affects younger vacationers, many of whom have not yet been vaccinated. But even fully vaccinated parents could get into trouble if their children had to be in quarantine for at least five days after returning from their Mallorca vacation instead of being allowed to go to the after-school care center or kindergarten. The Funke media group reported on Thursday that the federal government wanted to declare Spain and the Netherlands to be corona high incidence areas this Friday.
Since the end of June, the corona numbers have skyrocketed practically everywhere in Spain. The country has one of the worst values in Europe. Around 475,000 new infections were counted within a month, the seven-day incidence rose from 42 in June to 333 now, well above the 200 mark above which Germany can declare a country to be a high-incidence area. In Mallorca, the value was recently even 365.
The tourism industry had hoped for a much stronger business recovery this summer because of the ongoing vaccination campaign. In normal times, tourism contributes more than twelve percent to the Spanish gross domestic product (GDP), on the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, and on the Canary Islands it is even around 35 percent. The industry secures hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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