Spain to welcome overseas travellers with Covid certificates from June

Digital health certificates could show whether tourists have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from the virus

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Spain aims to reopen to overseas holidaymakers from June under the Covid digital health certificate scheme, the country's secretary of state for tourism has said.

Fernando Valdes told the World Travel & Tourism Council summit in Mexico on Tuesday that the programme - under which tourists could show they have been vaccinated, tested negative or recently recovered from the virus - would prove fundamental to offering travellers certainty".