Submitted on Wednesday 29th July 2020
Rejected on Friday 31st July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Request to remove The Balearic & Canary islands from UK return 14 day quarantine
Please reconsider the 14-day quarantine from the Balearic and Canary Islands. I am currently in Gran Canaria on holiday with my family. Gran Canaria is closer to Africa, and Spain is closer to Aberdeen than Gran Canaria is to Spain, so it is unfair to quarantine us when we get home as it is safe.
The islands are very safe to travel into as they have relatively few cases of Covid-19, not like Mainland Spain.
Holidaymakers returning from the islands have expressed that they felt safer during their stay on the islands than at home in the UK. Everybody is adhering to the rules of social distancing and mask-wearing.
Many families booked their holidays without accounting for the 14-day quarantine, such as mine and now will either have to cancel the holiday, which some people have saved up all year for and lose approximately £300 deposit or agree to 14 days unpaid leave from work which for some could be around £700. It is unfair to limit holidaymakers from travelling to safe islands when they have worked hard to save and need to relax after an awful and unprecedented 2020.
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