France toughens travel rules from UK as Omicron surges
France has issued a statement about new restrictions being placed on travellers from the UK. The statement says as Omicron spreads “extremely quickly” across the UK, the French government has decided to reimplement compelling reasons for travel between the countries and brought back mandatory tests.
It says: “According to the British government’s own words, the United Kingdom is about to face a ‘landslide’ linked to the Omicron variant in the upcoming days.
featu”Therefore, starting from this Saturday morning (00:00), the following rules will be established for travel between the United Kingdom and France:
- A compelling reason will be mandatory for travellers leaving or going to the United Kingdom, for both unvaccinated and vaccinated people. (See list of compelling reasons below*). These compelling reasons do not include professional and tourist trips. However, these compelling reasons will not apply to French citizens, their partners and children, who will still be able to come to France
- Before their departure, vaccinated people will have to show a negative test (PCR or antigen) taken less than 24h ago, which falls into line with the measures that were already in place for unvaccinated people
- Every traveller coming from the United Kingdom will have to register, prior to their trip, on a digital platform to indicate their destination address in France. This platform will generate prefectural decrees ordering the mandatory isolation of every unvaccinated and vaccinated traveller in the location of their choice. This mandatory quarantine can be lifted after 48h, under the conditions of showing the proof of a new negative test (PCR or antigen)
What are the latest UK Covid figures?
The UK reported a record number of Covid cases yesterday – 78,610, the highest number of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
The previous record was 68,053 on 8 January – when the UK was in lockdown.
As of the 14th, there were 7,673 Covid patients in hospital and deaths remain stable.
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