Covid: the United Kingdom toughens its conditions for arrivals from France, even for the vaccinated
Mandatory quarantine even for the vaccinated: the United Kingdom has announced that anyone arriving from France will have to self-isolate for 10 days (image: London Heathrow airport).
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Mandatory quarantine even for the vaccinated: the United Kingdom has announced that anyone arriving from France will have to isolate themselves for 10 days.
The diet is the same for everyone, whether they are vaccinated or not.
A surprising decision.
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With our correspondent in London,
Marie Boëda
Total vaccination does not dispense with quarantine.
In any case not when you arrive from France;
and this applies to everyone, including the British.
The rise of the Beta variant on French soil worries the authorities across the Channel.
For the moment, severe cases are rarer thanks to vaccination, very high in the UK, 68% of adults have received two doses.
But this variant from South Africa is said to be more resistant to the vaccine.
This decision remains surprising, because the presence of the strain is growing in France certainly, but on the island of Reunion.
The French response was quick.
It requires a negative test done 24 hours before arrival on the territory for the unvaccinated.
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For the International Air Transport Association, the government "is
destroying its own travel industry and the thousands of jobs that depend on it
".
Meanwhile, the Delta variant continues to advance in the UK.
This Saturday, more than 54,000 cases were listed.
The Minister of Health, who has just tested positive, even expects 100,000 cases per day this summer.
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