Spain quarantine | Do you know what the latest changes are?

Last month, the UK Government confirmed that, due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the threat of a second wave, all holidaymakers returning from Spain to the UK would be forced into a two-week quarantine – meaning that workers would not be able to attend work, instead either having to work remotely or potentially face unpaid leave.

At the time, various retailers, food outlets and restaurants implored staff to reconsider any trips to the country, with some such as Greggs’ Chief Executive Roger Whiteside confirming that any staff taking the risk to travel to do so at the expense of pay upon their return.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Whiteside added: “We’ve really tried to be very fair about how to handle this crisis. We topped the furlough pay from 80% to 100% during the lockdown phase, because we thought that was the fair thing to do.

“And then when news came out that people could start to think about going away on holiday, we thought about that, but we made it clear to people ‘look there is a risk clearly that quarantine might apply, so if you do decide you have to take that risk for yourself’.”