RESIDENTS in five regions in Spain are allowed to travel to other provinces within their territories from today (Monday), although others have decided to wait at least another week.
Anyone living in Andalucía, the Canary Islands, Galicia, Aragón or the Basque Country can now travel to another province – for example, those based on the Costa del Sol can go to Granada or Cádiz, and people in Teruel can go to Zaragoza or Huesca – although they are still not able to leave their regions.
Spanish health authorities opted to allow regional governments to decide for themselves whether movement between provinces would be permitted – provided these regions were in 'Phase 3'.
This means residents cannot yet leave their provinces if they live in Castilla y León, the Comunidad Valenciana, the Castilla-La Mancha provinces of Toledo, Ciudad Real or Albacete, or the Catalunya provinces of Barcelona or Girona or within the hospital catchment areas of Alt Pirineu or the Arán Valley in Lleida, since all these areas remain on 'Phase 2'.
Different regional governments have made different decisions on movement, though.
In the Basque Country, residents can travel within regional borders without restrictions, although the exercise time slots of 10.00 to noon and 19.00 to 20.00 for the over-70s will be retained for the moment as a 'priority period'.
But the Basque regional government's request for 'outliers', or people living on the borders with provinces in neighbouring regions – such as Navarra and Cantabria – to be allowed to cross over into these territories has been denied, likewise its request for the French border to open.
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