The quarantine imposed across the UK on arrivals from France has come into force, while restrictions on coronaviruses are re-emerging across Europe amid a relentless accumulation of cases.
France has promised a “reciprocity measure” after the UK added the country to its list of countries where any arrival will have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.
Late on Thursday, the British government announced that arrivals from France, the Netherlands and Malta would be quarantined after 3am GMT on Saturday, giving thousands of tourists a little time to get caught up in self-isolation again.
There were some 160,000 Britons on holiday in France, as well as another 300,000 French people living in the UK on holiday in France or at the time of the announcement.
France is the ultimate holiday destination at the moment for British tourists after Spain, which is also on the quarantine list.
At the French ports of Dunkirk and Calais, whose mayor described the British quarantine motion as an “aggression,” many British travellers were queuing on their ferries to cross the English Channel into Britain.
Travel functions were limited for those who suffered to get home, with Air France, Eurostar and Eurotunnel temporarily booked.
After lifting restrictions across Europe and reopening borders giving tourism sectors a glimmer of hope for the summer season, the world seems to be closing.
In Paris, which is experiencing a flow of the virus well above the national average, masks become mandatory from Saturday morning in the new neighbourhoods, adding the Louvre Museum and in a component of the Champs-Elysées. Meetings of more than 10 people who do not comply with barrier measures are prohibited.
In southwestern France, the celebrations of the Assumption, which attract up to 25,000 pilgrims to Lourdes, one of the most vital places of Christian pilgrimage in the world, will remain to a minimum.
“We will welcome 5,000 pilgrims in the Basilica of St. Pius X and 5,000 in the rest of the shrines,” said Vincent Cabanac, Director of the National Pilgrimage.
Since Friday it is mandatory to wear a mask in the shrines and in the streets near the enclosure. And the rule is scrupulously respected.
Masks are mandatory for the whole country outside the gates of Spain, which is experiencing a strong accumulation in instances with 3000 two days in a row.
The government has blamed the nightlife for rising nightlife and has now closed nightclubs and nightclubs, limited visits to nursing homes, banned street smoking and tightened police checks.
Germany has classified Spain, with the exception of the Canary Islands, highly appreciated by German tourists, as a country at risk, making quarantine and detection tests mandatory for those returning from the Canary Islands.
On the Greek border, thousands of Albanians running in Greece found themselves stranded on Friday, to pass before the legal responsibility for filing with a negative Covid-19 check came into force on Sunday.
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