My sister who lives in Spain should cancel her trip to visit us in the UK

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My sister lives in Spain and is due to visit us next week for 5 weeks.

Now there has been a Coronavirus surge in Spain and everyone travelling from there to the UK,will have to quarantine for 2 weeks, the trip has thrown up some issues for us as a family.

She would be quarantining at my parent's house who are in their seventies (in good health) - the worry is that her staying there could be putting them at risk. Their house is too small for her to be able to quarantine/self-isolate effectively and she can't stay with me, as I live with someone clinically vulnerable and also live in a small house. There isn't the money for her to stay in a hotel during the 2 weeks quarantine.

The visit home means alot to my sister and my parents don't want to disappoint her, despite being uncomfortable with the risk. My sister is not at all worried about Coronavirus and doesn't understand what all the worry is about, in relation to her trip. She also feels she is at more risk of catching Coronavirus here in the UK, than in Spain!

My view is that the trip should be cancelled, but that decision is ultimately up to my parents to make.

What would you do - let the trip go ahead and take a risk, or cancel?

Thanks for your advice.

I think she should cancel. I have family living in Spain- my Aunt is intending to visit from Madrid in early August and quarantine with my grandad who is in his bloody nineties! She was going to be staying with him anyway as she comes over normally to give other family looking after him a break. I'm really cross about how laid back my family are being about this, to me it isn't worth the risk. They seem to have decided that as long as you wear a mask everywhere you can't possibly catch it

@BSJohnson I can’t see if your question has already been answered. Data suppressed usually means the numbers are so small that they can’t publish them in case the people could be identified. So in this case the white is v low numbers of cases = good

Very useful, @Hobbes8 - thanks!

@BSJohnson and @OverTheRainbow88 My understanding of "data supressed" is that they are not publishing the number of positive tests for an area if it is less than three for the relevant week. So an area showing as white on the map may have had no positive tests for the week in question or may have had one or two.

@Bateshotel but it can take 14 days for the virus to show up. That’s why the quarantine period is that long.

@MRex that's a fascinating and really useful map. Do you know who publishes it and how often it's updated?

Even if you are asymptomatic I believe if you have it it would show on a test. If the test is negative then you would have to "catch" it after the test to have it.

@AChickenCalledDaal - I find it useful too. Public Health England publish it as part of the government reporting, it's part of the new requests. It looks to be updated weekly inThursdays in line with the standard surveillance reports, I haven't noticed it being updated more often than that and I don't know if there are plans to make it a rolling update or just do it weekly or whatever once it gets out of beta mode.

Your sister is a NT adult? Your parents too? Guess it’s for them to decide and make it work, or not. You can have an opinion, doesn’t mean she has to listen.