France is to impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from the UK to prevent the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus, the government has said. Spokesman Gabriel Attal said the new measure will be similar to limits imposed in Germany on people traveling from the UK. “France is going to take similar measures and so put in place obligatory isolation for people who come from the United Kingdom,” he said. From Sunday, Germany started requiring people arriving from the UK to go into quarantine for 14 days, in response to the spread in Britain of the Indian variant. The possibility of tighter French restrictions for British visitors was first raised on Sunday by foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Source: Irish Independent May 26, 2021 13:20 UTC