A British mum has slammed 'ridiculous' rules which could force her 13-year-old daughter to quarantine in Majorca for 21 days.
April Allinson, from Teesside, said her sunny getaway with her daughter Ellie and daughter's friend Lilly has turned into a 'nightmare'.
The trio have been in quarantine in Alcudia, Majorca, for eight days and were due to head back to the UK on Saturday.
However April, 30, said the Spanish Embassy has now instructed that the two teenagers must quarantine for a further 10 days after their last contact with the mum-of-one.
The beauty business owner said she 'doesn't understand how it can be acceptable or legal' to leave two young girls alone in a foreign country for 10 days, calling the situation 'absolutely ridiculous'.
'We've done our 10 days [of quarantine] and that's absolutely fine, that's up in the next couple of days. We have no problem with that,' she said.
'The problem is now that the Spanish Government are trying to say the girls, who are 13, their quarantine doesn't start until I leave them. Their last contact with me is when their quarantine starts.
'I don't understand how that can be acceptable or legal.
'That's what the issue is. That's what we're trying to get help with. Them saying they have to stay by themselves is absolutely ridiculous.'
April Allinson (right), a British mum and business owner, has slammed 'ridiculous' rules which will force her 13-year-old daughter Ellie (left) to quarantine in Majorca for 21 days
April is desperate to rectify the situation as quickly as possible and said she has since been told by someone in contact with the Foreign Office that they are 'very positive' that it 'should be resolved'.
She explained how the trio ended up in isolation after she received a false negative test result.
'We come on holiday on the 14th and we were only meant to be here for seven days and fly back on the 21st. We ordered a fit to fly test on the 20th which all came back negative so we all thought we were coming home and then I had a phone about five hours after my test,' April, from Egglescliffe, said.
'They said I wasn't negative, I was actually positive and they'd sent me another email. The email they sent me went into my junk folder and they re-tested me the next morning.
'It come back positive at which point we were already isolating and weren't allowed to leave the room.
'That's absolutely fine, we accepted that and will do our 10 days isolation..'
However, on Tuesday morning April received a phone call at 10am from the Spanish Government to confirm her quarantine period ends on Friday, July 30.
She was told she is able to fly home to Middlesbrough on Saturday, July 31.
But her daughter and her friend must begin their quarantine period when April has
