Can I avail of test to release if I travel back on Monday?

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Q I am currently in Tenerife, booked to come back on Monday. I understand the new legislation allowing you to take a test and reduce your isolation to five days comes into effect on Tuesday. Are we better to extend our holiday by one day or can we use the scheme even though we are landing ahead of the start?

David S

A You have been most unfortunate to have been caught by the sudden and unexpected imposition of quarantine on people returning to the UK from the Canary Islands. After just seven weeks in which the archipelago appeared to offer an ideal winter getaway for sun-starved British holidaymakers, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, removed the Canaries’ “travel corridor”. As with travellers to the rest of Spain, anyone returning from Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and all islands to La Graciosa must now self-isolate at home.