After a few months and a half in complete lockdown, the French authorities have finally changed the latter with a nightly curfew, keeping several types of venues closed in order to avoid another spike up in the cases of COVID-19 in the nation.
In his weekly press conference last Thursday, the French Prime Minister Jean Castex introduced that the health scenario in France has improved significantly in current weeks, still noting that the second wave of the pandemic had yet to end.
“Now we have not but reached the tip of this 2nd wave, and we won’t be, on December 15,” he noted, explaining why nightly curfew would stay, and some venues wouldn’t be permitted to reopen.
With the lockdown put to an end, each international travel and travel to different regions of France will again be possible for non-essential reasons, so tourists and second homeowners can again go to France, and people can travel to see relatives and friends in different parts of the nation or other international locations.
In his speech, saying the new measures, PM Castex notes that travel for the evening of December 24 shall be authorized but not for more than six adults at a time whereas reminding French residents to respect the rules of hygiene and distance.
“All of those measures enable us to keep up the possibility of traveling all through the territory from December 15,” he noted.
In fact, travel shall be possible only from and to countries under France’s checklist of epidemiologically safe countries. At present, the French Ministry for Europe and Overseas Affairs lists the next countries as low-risk, which suggests travel between these countries and France is permitted
- European Union
- Andorra
- Australia
- the Holy See
- Iceland
- Japan
- Liechtenstein
- Monaco
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Rwanda
- San Marino
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- the UK
On the very beginning of November, the whole of France went into the second lockdown since the outbreak of the pandemic again in February 2020 in Europe. Regardless of the lockdown, the inner borders with the EU were saved open, whereas the external borders have been closed.
A new measure for undergoing COVID-19 testing upon arrival in France was put into place. Travelers also had the choice to current the results of a test taken at most 72 hours earlier than arrival to France and not take a new one in France.
