France has become the latest country to impose quarantine
requirements on anyone arriving in the country from the UK.
French government spokesman Gabriel Attal
said on Wednesday, "There is a new situation with the progression of
the so-called Indian variant in the United Kingdom. [France] will set up
compulsory isolation for people coming from the United Kingdom."
The country says only essential travel
from the UK will be allowed and that arrivals will have to self-isolate for
seven days.
The French decision follows that of
Germany. As of midnight on Sunday, Germany has classified the UK and
all British overseas territories as areas of a variant of concern.
As a result, anyone traveling to Germany from the UK quarantine for 14 days and this period cannot
be reduced with a negative test.
Austria has also announced that it will
ban flights between the UK and Austria as of 1 June as a result of the spread
of the Indian variant.