Foreign travel restrictions relaxed from Friday
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People travelling to or from Spain will have to quarantine on arrival in Scotland it has been announced.
At today's Scottish Government coronavirus briefing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland would adopt the vast bulk of the "air bridges" plan announced by the UK government last week.
This means that from Friday, Scots will be able to travel to 57 other countries without having to self-isolate on returning.
However Ms Sturgeon said it was necessary to retain the 14-day quarantine measure for Spain, which is on the UK government's "amber" list.
She stated that, while the prevalence of coronavirus in Spain was around twice that of the UK as a whole, it was 10 times greater than in Scotland.
Travel to and from Serbia will also continue to be subject to quarantine measures due to similar concerns.
Ms Sturgeon said the decision to retain quarantine, particularly for Spain, had been a "very difficult" one to make.
But she added: "It is evidence-driven and motivated only by a determination to protect Scotland as far as possible from a resurgence of the virus in the weeks ahead."
And she said that the government was looking at what other measures might be put in place to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus without the need for quarantine.
She also issued a warning that people could not escape the current requirement to quarantine in Scotland if travelling to or from Spain or Serbia via airports in England.
The full list of countries that it will be possible to travel to and from without quarantine from Friday are:
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Réunion, San Marino, Seychelles, South Korea, St Barthélemy, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Vatican City, Vietnam.
