"We are going to include several other countries in the list, countries which are the subject of more important quarantine and control measures", Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, announced on Wednesday, about measures which s 'will apply' from the end of the week '.
Thus, the government revealed this Friday that passengers from Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are now also affected by an obligation to quarantine, upon their arrival. arrival on French soil.
Until then, only four countries, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa, as well as Guyana, were affected by these measures, which could be subject to controls at the place of isolation. .
They will have to observe a mandatory ten-day quarantine on arrival in France due to the circulation of the Covid-19 epidemic in these countries.
"Diplomatic notifications are being made and obviously we are first warning those concerned before communicating it publicly," Gabriel Attal had justified Wednesday, to explain his inability to disclose the name of these countries for the time being. “We cannot take the risk of new variants lightly,” he said.