Flowing to the surge in the number of new cases, the Spanish authorities are raising their voice and tightening border controls. From Tuesday, a negative PCR test of less than 72 hours will now be required for anyone wishing to cross the French land border to travel to Spain. This measure applies to people over 6 years old. It comes as Spain steps up restrictions in hopes of avoiding an increase in cases of Covid-19 contamination during Holy Week, which begins this weekend. This is the first time that such a requirement has been imposed by Spain on those crossing this land border. Until now, this had only been required for arrivals by air.
“They must have a PCR test (RT-PCR), TMA test or other type of diagnostic test for Sars-CoV-2 based on equivalent molecular techniques, with a negative result, carried out within 72 hours of the test. arrival ”, indicates the Official Journal of the Spanish government published on Saturday. Only people working in road transport and cross-border workers will be exempt, as well as people living in the border area provided they stay within a radius of 30 kilometers around their home.
Many tourists
Such a measure has already been in place since January 31 for people entering France from Spain by air, land or sea, and must present a negative test. The rule applies from 11 years old. Until mid-March, the number of infections was steadily declining in Spain, but it started to climb again, with government figures showing 7,586 new cases in 24 hours on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to nearly 3.3 million and deaths to more than 75,000. In France, daily cases have almost doubled since the beginning of the month. The bar of 200,000 new weekly cases has been crossed and more than 94,000 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
Favorite destination in the middle of Covid with its bars open and its curfew at 11 p.m., Madrid has become a refuge for European tourists, especially French, while its inhabitants are prohibited from leaving the region. This difference in treatment exasperates the Spaniards, even more with the approach of Holy Week, an extremely popular holiday in the country and when people are used to traveling to meet up with their families.
Germany classified, on Friday, the whole of France, including the overseas territories, as an area at “high risk” of infection with Covid-19, which implies in particular at least random checks at the borders, which most travelers from France observe a quarantine period on arrival and have a negative test of less than 48 hours.
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