France will beef up controls on travellers arriving from Britain after a steep rise there in infections linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant, the federal government stated on Thursday.
The measures embody lowering the validity of antigen and PCR exams to 24 hours from 48 hours for arriving travellers and limiting causes to journey from Britain to France.
“We’re going to put in place a management….much more drastic than what’s presently in place,” authorities spokesman Gabriel Attal advised BFM tv.
“Tourism and enterprise journey for people who find themselves not French nationals nor Europeans, people who find themselves not French residents shall be restricted,” he stated.
Travellers from Britain arriving in France must self-isolate for seven days, although isolation shall be lifted after 48 hours if their take a look at performed in France is destructive.
These restrictions till now utilized solely to non-vaccinated travellers from Britain.
“Our aim is to restrict as a lot as doable the unfold of Omicron throughout our territory,” Attal stated, including there have been presently 240 confirmed Omicron circumstances in France.
The most recent figures launched on Wednesday confirmed new COVID-19 infections in the UK reached the very best every day stage because the early 2020 begin of the pandemic, with greater than 78,000 reported.
France on Wednesday reported 65,713 new coronavirus infections over 24 hours, bringing whole circumstances because the begin of the epidemic to eight.4 million. Whole deaths in France because the begin of the epidemic reached 120,983
(Reuters)