PARIS — France will impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from Britain to prevent the spread of a worrying virus variant first detected in India, the French government said Wednesday.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal stated the new measure will be similar to limits imposed in Germany on individuals traveling from the U.K.
“France is going to take similar measures and so put in place obligatory isolation for individuals who come from the UK,” he stated.
He didn’t say when the quarantine will be introduced. He stated more info would be released shortly.
From Sunday, Germany began requiring individuals arriving from the U.K. to go into quarantine for 14 days. The decision responded to the spread in Britain of the Indian variant.
Under Germany’s tighter guidelines, airlines and others are also only able to transport German citizens and residents from Britain.
The possibility of tighter French restrictions for British visitors was first raised Sunday by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
The minister suggested that Britain could be put in a health category of its own, somewhere in between the strictest measures that France is imposing on visitors from India and 15 different nations, and more relaxed requirements being readied for visitors from the European Union and some other nations.
