Flying to UK

Presumably you have checked up on the latest rules on Gov.uk website?  I flew to UK in September returning to Spain 6 days later and at that time needed vaccine certificate, 2 days before travel lateral/PCR test and locator form.  Also needed to have had the 2 day test booked in UK as details go on locator form.  No issues at all once done, likewise on return journey as long as Spanish locator form completed plus have the vaccination certificate.  Do need to check on Gov.uk site regularly though for any rule changes.

Im sorry but Im pretty sure you have been given wrong info... 

Do check the Gov.UK web site..( I know it can be confusing) or...check with a travel agent here?... I know nothing about isolating for 10 days?

I have a partner who is flying back and forth fairy regularly and is not having to do as you suggest here. Mind you... The Covid Numbers in Spain are climbing again... and their may be new restriction in place at some point.

Andy 10W has it spot on

Hello, I’m not saying we have to isolate as a   matter of course. Sorry, I think I’ve not explained the situation very well.

 What it is, a person who has been fully vaccinated in Spain, went to the UK. They arrived in the UK on the Thursday evening. On the Sunday pm they received the nhs track and trace ping. They were told by track and trace, that even though they had been fully vaccinated, they still had to isolate for ten days, regardless whether the day 2 test was negative. 

The person they travelled with to the UK had been vaccinated in the UK. They also were pinged and told they were allowed to go out, but if they showed any symptoms of covid, they were to go and have pcr test and isolate.

What I’m wondering, is why this is the case, when the vaccine is meant to be the same all over the world.

Hope this makes my question a bit clearer.

Yes it does make your first question clearer .. 

Of course the vaccine is the same certainly in Europe and one expects it to be the same world wide. Thank you though for clearing things up...

Over the whole period of Covid there have been anomalies as to how people have been treated from different countries, Certainly as one stage...Boris said he wold not accept the certificates of People jabbed outside of the UK !! Which was outrageous.. and he was firmly told it was too. The fact anyone could contemplate Political point scoring over such important matters was a disgrace in itself...Germany more than once...refused to accept the vaccine developed in Britain...So it was manufactured somewhere like Belgium...How absurd...    Alas, the public are often the pawns in political point scoring.

The reason you get 'pinged' in the UK by the NHS test & trace system is that you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid.

So perhaps both of your friends who traveled together on the flight over were sitting close to someone who later tested positive upon arrival in the UK. Or it could even be one of the cabin crew?

Hi thanks for that, I understand why they got pinged.

My question is in relation to the isolation rules.

Thank you for the reply though.