Travelers from India will now also be subject to mandatory ten-day isolation upon arrival in France, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.
"For some countries where the health situation is extremely serious and particularly worrying and worrying, we are still tightening the screws"
, he declared at the end of the council of ministers, announcing that the health defense council had decided in the morning add India to the list of countries whose travelers are already subject to mandatory quarantine (Brazil, Chile, Argentina and South Africa).
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India, the second country most affected by Covid-19 after the United States, is facing a major health crisis with more than 2,000 deaths, nearly 300,000 new infections in 24 hours and a shortage of treatment and oxygen .
The country now deplores more than 182,000 deaths from the pandemic and 15.6 million infections. This exponential recrudescence, with nearly 3.5 million new infections since the beginning of the month, is notably attributed to a "double mutation" of the virus.