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		</div><p>Spain jumpstarted its summer tourism season by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European visitors who can prove they are not infected with coronavirus.</p>
<p>It also reopened its ports to cruise ship stops.</p>
<p>Non-vaccinated travellers from the European Union’s 27 countries can enter Spain now with the negative results of recent antigen tests, which are cheaper and faster than PCR tests for coronavirus.</p>
<p>Spain is still banning non-essential travellers from Brazil, India and South Africa, where virus variants have been been a major source of concern.</p>
<p>Authorities will accept as proof official certificates that the visitors were vaccinated at least 14 days before the trip or that they overcame a Covid-19 infection in the past six months.</p>
<p>The certificates can be in Spanish, English, French or German, or their equivalent translations in Spanish, the government’s order said.</p>
<p>The vaccines accepted are those approved by Europe’s drug regulator, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson &; Johnson, also known as Janssen, as well as two Chinese vaccines authorised by the World Health Organisation, Sinopharm and Sinovac.</p>
<p>The same documents will be valid for EU visitors until the bloc gets together its Digital Green Certificate that some have dubbed a vaccine passport for travelling.</p>
<p>The Spanish government has set a goal of receiving between 14.5 million to 15.5 million visitors between July and September.</p>
<p>That is about 40% of the tourists in the same period of 2019 but twice as many as last summer, when only EU visitors could enter Spain.</p>
<p>Tourism is a major industry that in 2019 accounted for over 12% of Spain’s GDP.</p>
<p>In another move to boost tourism, Spanish ports opened to cruise ships on Monday, nearly 15 months after they were banned as the first coronavirus outbreaks were detected.</p>
<p>After peaking in late January at nearly 900 new cases per 100,000 residents in 14-days, the coronavirus contagion indicator in Spain has dropped to 117 per 100,000.</p>
<p>Still, its descent has stalled in the past days as new infections are spreading among unvaccinated groups.</p>
<p>Spain has counted over 80,000 Covid-19 deaths in the pandemic.</p>
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