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Govt scraps France’s ‘amber plus’ status for arrivals in England

Government
Rob Gill
4 August 2021

The UK government is to remove France’s “amber plus” status after fierce criticism of the policy both in the UK and from French politicians.

Atout France

Paris topped Euromonitor's index (Credit: Chris Karidis / Unsplash)

All arrivals from France, regardless of their vaccination status, have had to quarantine for 10 days since the government suddenly created the so-called amber plus category on 16 July.

But the UK government has now announced that arrivals from France to England will no longer have to quarantine if they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.