The French government released a ranking on Friday that determines which travelers arriving in France from June 9 will be able to do without a PCR test, and which will remain subject to restrictions.

They are classified into green, orange and red, depending on epidemic indicators.

"Green" Europeans, "orange" Britons, "red" Brazilians: the French government published a ranking on Friday which determines which travelers arriving in France from June 9 can do without a PCR test, and which will remain subject to restrictions.

There are countries classified as "green" which control the circulation of the coronavirus and do not have a problem of "worrying" variant (European Area, Australia, South Korea, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Singapore).

If you arrive from these countries, no more compelling reasons for visiting will be required of you.

And you will only have to provide proof of a negative test (PCR or antigen) of less than 72 hours if you are not vaccinated.

The vaccinated will be exempt from testing.

Travel for Europeans made easier from July 1

The vaccinated are those who will have carried out a complete vaccination for at least 14 days on the date of travel with the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines (and for four weeks for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine).

For Europeans, travel will be made easier from July 1 with the health pass including proof of vaccination, a negative test result or proof of recovery from the Covid of less than 6 months.

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For countries classified as "red" (South Africa, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Turkey, Uruguay), an overriding reason remains necessary to come to France, PCR or antigen tests will be required whether or not one is vaccinated and a quarantine of 7 to 10 days, depending on whether or not one is vaccinated, will be imposed on arrival on French soil.

For countries classified as "orange", such as the United States or Great Britain, where a variant of the coronavirus worries the authorities, a PCR or antigen test will be required if the traveler is vaccinated, otherwise he will need a compelling reason, a negative test and he will have to place himself in self-isolation for 7 days.

"We need health security, we need to avoid the importation of variants, a form of evolution of the virus which could call into question all the efforts made by the French," Jean-Baptiste said on RMC radio Lemoyne, Secretary of State for Tourism.

Ongoing negotiations

With the British, "we have the subject of the Indian variant (Delta, editor's note) that we are studying very precisely", for his part detailed the Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, on CNEWS.

The British Transport Minister, Grant Shapps, in fact estimated Thursday that the Delta variant was "dominant" in the United Kingdom with 12,431 identified cases (a figure up nearly 80% from the previous week).

Negotiations are underway with countries like Tunisia, which are still in "orange" status, in order to facilitate the reciprocal movement of people, and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said he hoped to see them succeed by the end of the month. As for the Americans, they "have vaccinated a lot but they haven't digitized a lot, when you are vaccinated you typically have a paper receipt, we are in discussions with them, the goal is always to be able to open North America. North, Canada and the United States, part of Africa "and some countries in Southeast Asia by the summer, according to Mr. Djebbari.

France invested 10 million euros in early May in a campaign of seduction for European tourists that it hopes to welcome this summer. In France, the world's leading tourist destination before the pandemic, the sector brought in 57 billion euros in 2019 (7.5% of GDP) and represented 2.87 million jobs. In 2020, with the health crisis, revenues were halved. Even more, the destination France faces competition from Greece, Spain and Italy.