This Tuesday, September 20, the ‘Spain Travel Health’ document will no longer be required
On October 20, all surveillance controls will be completely removed
From this one tuesday september 20all the passengers arriving in Spain by air or sea –including those from outside the EU and the Schengen area– already they will not have to submit the health control form that they were required to enter the country as a responsible declaration with information related to the trip, personal identification, contact and location, epidemiological data or with information from the vaccination certificate or diagnostic test. This is how he picks it up Official State Gazette (BOE) this Monday in a resolution of the General Directorate of Public Health regarding health controls at points of entry to Spain.
According to sources from Aena to EL PERIÓDICO, between September 20 and October 20, some visual surveillance and temperature control measures will be maintained in the event that a suspected case of covid is detected. In that case, the passenger in question would be referred to undergo a covid-19 test. The October 20 all kinds of controls will be removed.
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In order to promote international mobility, it is no longer considered necessary to maintain the use of the application Spain Travel Health (SpTh) as the eighth section of the Resolution of April 1, 2022 of the General Directorate of Public Health is rendered null and void. This required passengers who use the airway to complete before departure, as a responsible declaration, the aforementioned health control form through the application or the web. After validating the document, SpTH generated an individualized QR code that the traveler had to present to the transport company before boarding, as well as during the health checks upon arrival in Spain when required, along with the documents that prove the truth. of the information entered in SpTH during the process of obtaining the QR code. All this declines from this Tuesday.
The ninth section of the resolution is also without effect and, from now on, passenger ships of the cruise who make international trips and navigate through the waters of the territorial sea will not have to comply with the conditions set out in the document ‘Sanitary measures for the reestablishment of international cruises’ prepared by the Ministry of Health.