France to restrict travel from UK due to Omicron surge: govt

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France is to tighten up restrictions on travel to and from Britain to slow the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 which is causing record numbers of cases on the other side of the Channel, the government has said.

“We will put in place a system of controls drastically tighter than the one we have already,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal told BFM-TV, saying returning travellers would need a negative test of fewer than 24 hours, a quarantine enforced on return to France and trips for tourism limited.

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