Covid: Majorca hotel quarantine ends for 170 Spanish students More than 170 Spanish teenagers have left Covid quarantine in a very Majorca hotel and are heading back to mainland Spain, but 77 who tested positive remain under police guard at the hotel. All but some of these who tested negative are to board a ferry bound for Valencia. they’d protested from their balconies over their forced isolation. A judge ruled on Wednesday that the Covid-negative teenagers could get back. A Covid outbreak was linked to partying school students in Palma de Mallorca. The quarantine at the four-star Palma Bellver hotel came just days before an expected influx of British tourists after the united kingdom added the Balearic Islands to its limited green list of low-risk destinations. Majorca police confined the scholars to the hotel after the authorities identified a reggaeton concert in Palma on 15 June as a super-spreader event. Teenagers from the mainland – most from the southern Andalucía region – were in Majorca to celebrate the tip of their academic year. “I’m so happy to be free,” a student called Marina told the BBC, among some who were heading home by plane on Thursday. She said she was “very excited” about seeing her family again and “grateful to all or any the folks that supported us”. She said she had chosen a flight in order that she could get home sooner. The Covid flare-up linked to student trips to Majorca has put nearly 6,000 people into quarantine across Spain, nearly 2,000 of whom have tested positive, Spain’s Health Minister Carolina Darias said. Officials try to search out out whether party venues in Majorca, where students celebrated, violated Covid hygiene rules. British tourists with a negative test result now don’t need to quarantine on arrival within the archipelago, nor once they return to the united kingdom. On Wednesday, Ms. Darias said the Covid infection rate in Spain, measured over a 14-day period, had risen from 92 cases per 100,000 people every week ago to 117.
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