In addition, returning travellers will need a negative test less than 24 hours old, and a blanket quarantine would be enforced on return to France. "Our strategy is to delay as much as we can the development of Omicron in our country and take advantage to push ahead with the booster drive," he said. "We will put in place a system of controls drastically tighter than the one we have already," government spokesman Gabriel Attal told BFMTV channel.Īttal said the policy was aimed at "tightening the net" to slow down the arrival of Omicron cases in France and give time for the French vaccination booster campaign to make more ground. It added that French citizens and EU nationals could still return to France from the UK. "Faced with the extremely rapid spread of the Omicron variant in the UK, the government has chosen to reinstate the need for an essential reason for travel from and to the UK," the statement said. People cannot travel for touristic or professional reasons," the government said in a statement. From midnight Saturday (2300 GMT Friday) there will be a "requirement to have an essential reason to travel to, or come from, the UK, both for the unvaccinated and vaccinated.
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