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Passengers on flights from Portugal, with the exception of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, must present a negative PCR test upon arrival at an airport in Spain as of November 23.
The Official Gazette of the Spanish State (corresponding to the Diário da República de Portugal) publishes today the list of areas and countries considered at risk to enter Spain by air or sea.
Travel agencies, tour operators and air or maritime transport companies and any other agent that sells tickets must inform passengers at the beginning of the ticket sales process for Spain.
“All passengers from a country or risk zone listed in Annex II, who intend to enter Spain, must perform a Diagnostic Test for Active Infection by RAS-CoV-2 with a negative result, carried out within 72 hours prior to arrival. to Spain ”, according to the published standard, which adds the need for the document to be written in Spanish and / or English.
In the case of European countries and the Schengen area, the risk map prepared by the European Center for Disease Control is followed, which uses the accumulated rate of notification of covid-19 cases during the last 14 days, the rate of positive results and testing rate.
Therefore, they will have to undergo a PCR test carried out 72 hours before arrival in the vast majority of the Member States of the European Union, including “Portugal (except the autonomous region of the Azores Islands)”, Finland, Greece and various regions of Norway.
Regarding third countries, the basic reference will be to exceed the accumulated incidence of 150 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, complemented by the capacities implemented, as provided for in the International Health Regulations.
This list includes, for example, countries such as Cape Verde, the United States of America, or the United Kingdom.
Spain registered 19,096 new cases of covid-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to more than 1.4 million people since the start of the pandemic, according to figures published by the Spanish Ministry of Health.
Health authorities also accounted for 349 more deaths attributed to COVID-19, with more than 40,000 deaths so far.
The cumulative incidence level in Spain stabilized on Wednesday at 514 diagnosed cases (10 less than Tuesday) per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, the regions with the highest levels being Ceuta (1,071), Melilla (1,013), Aragón ( 948), Navarra (866), Castilla y León (846), Rioja (799), the Basque Country (787) and Catalonia (642).
The covid-19 pandemic has caused more than 1.26 million deaths worldwide since December last year, including 3,103 in Portugal.
In Europe, the highest number of deaths is registered in the United Kingdom (50,365 deaths, more than 1.2 million cases), followed by Italy (42,953 deaths, more than 1 million cases), France (42,435 deaths, more than 1 , 8 million cases) and Spain (40,105 deaths, more than 1.4 million cases).
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