France to restrict travel from Britain to fight omicron

PARIS – France volition restrict arrivals from Britain due to the fact that of fast-spreading cases of the omicron coronavirus variant, putting limits connected reasons for traveling and requiring 48-hour isolation upon arrival, the authorities spokesperson said Thursday.

The caller measures are expected to instrumentality effect implicit the weekend. The authorities is holding a peculiar microorganism information gathering Friday that volition code increasing unit connected hospitals successful France from rising infections successful caller weeks.

Delta remains the ascendant variant successful France, but omicron is spreading truthful accelerated successful Britain that it's raising concerns crossed the Channel.

French authorities spokesperson Gabriel Attal said connected BFM tv that tourism oregon concern trips from Britain to France “will beryllium limited,” though French citizens volition inactive beryllium capable to marque the journey.

All those arriving from Britain volition request to person a antagonistic microorganism trial little than 24 hours old, and to trial again upon accomplishment and isolate “in a spot they choose” for astatine slightest 48 hours pending the result, Attal said.

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The U.K. recorded the highest fig of confirmed caller COVID-19 infections Wednesday since the pandemic began, and England’s main aesculapian serviceman warned the concern is apt to get worse arsenic the omicron variant drives a caller question of unwellness during the Christmas holidays.

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