A decision announced by UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab over the weekend.
- In response to rising outbreaks of COVID-19 in Spain
- requires travellers arriving in the UK from Spain to quarantine for 14 days.
- Raab said the government "took the decision as swiftly as we could", data was received on Friday and the decision made on Saturday
Other countries experiencing outbreaks will take note of this, measures can be imposed very quickly, indeed.