On Wednesday, the Netherlands includes the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands among its safe destinations to travel while leaving out the rest of Spain. In this way, its Covid ‘traffic light’, unlike Great Britain, takes into account the incidence of coronavirus cases by areas, not by countries.
The Dutch Government has extended this Wednesday its list of safe European countries to which you can travel for tourism, between them Germany and Italy, but has left out important holiday destinations for the Dutch, like Spain, with the exception of the Canary and Balearic Islands.
In a statement, the Dutch Foreign Minister stressed that “in many European countries, there is a constant decrease in the Coronavirus figures “and ” this makes vacation trips to more and more countries possible “, although it was emphasized “once again that traveling at this time is associated with certain risks”.
From tomorrow
Starting tomorrow the travel advice for eight European countries will turn orange, indicating “only necessary trips”, to yellow, which highlights that there is a security risk, but allows tourist trips.
This list includes Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway (with the exception of some regions), Austria, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, joining the European countries that were already considered safe, such as Portugal, Malta, Hungary, Bulgaria, Iceland, Finland, parts of Greece and Romania.
Therefore, several important holiday destinations for the Dutch remain in orange and remain off the list, such as Belgium, France (only Corsica is included), Spain (the entire peninsula, except for the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands) and the United Kingdom.
Traveling to a location marked as yellow also means that travelers and nationals of those countries no longer have to present a negative PCR to enter the Netherlands, and do not have to undergo a 10-day quarantine upon arrival, but this does not mean that those countries apply reciprocity with the Netherlands.
“They may decide to impose entry restrictions on people coming from abroad, such as requiring a negative test. Therefore, it is advisable to read all the travel recommendations and not rely solely on the color, “warns Exteriors.
The Netherlands requires travelers arriving from orange areas to show a negative PCR of a maximum 72 hours and recommends underging a quarantine of 10 days, which can be reduced to 5 days if they do a new PCR with a negative result.