The Scottish First Minister is under pressure after she made the decision on Saturday night, amid rising numbers of cases in the popular holiday destination, meaning some travellers would have to quarantine for two weeks when they returned. She tweeted on Saturday: “Having reviewed the latest data earlier today, @scotgov is also reimposing 14-day quarantine for travellers returning from Spain.
“This reinforces the point that these matters are subject to change at short notice & so my advice is to be cautious about non-essential foreign travel.”
Her U-turn amid fears of a second wave comes just three 72 hours after Scotland lifted restrictions for people travelling to Scotland from Spain.
Ms Sturgeon had urged caution over booking holidays abroad on Wednesday, as the quarantine rules could be forced to change at short notice.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called for Ms Sturgeon to publish the data that led to Saturday's decision.
The decision to remove Spain from the exemption list was taken all across the UK.
In his letter to the First Minister on Sunday, Mr Rennie said: "It is little surprise that you were obliged to reverse that decision on Saturday evening. This is now a shambolic situation and there is a big question as to how Scottish ministers have made such poor-quality decisions.
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After the decision, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: "The decision to exempt Spain earlier this week was taken when the data showed there was an improvement in the spread of the virus.
“But clearly the latest data has given us cause for concern to overturn that decision."
Mr Yousaf tweeted that data belonged to the UK Government and therefore cannot be released by Holyrood.
However, he said he had written to UK Government officials to release the data.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab this morning doubled down on the UK's sudden decision to reimpose strict quarantine rules at short notice on travellers returning from Spain, calling the measures "absolutely necessary".
But Spain said it was in conversation with the UK about exempting the Canary and Balearic islands, which includes Ibiza and Mallorca, from the requirement to self-isolate for two weeks.
Foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya argued Spain had coronavirus outbreaks "perfectly controlled" after the European country recorded more than 900 fresh daily COVID-19 cases for two days running.
It comes after ministers announced on Saturday holidaymakers who had not returned from Spain and its islands by midnight would be forced to quarantine for 14 days after COVID-19 second wave fears saw the popular holiday destination struck off the UK's safe list.
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