Grant Shapps has defended the UK government’s decision to place France on the amber plus list despite a rise in cases of the Beta variant of Covid-19 being traced to the island of Reunion, located around 6,000 miles away in the Indian Ocean.
Earlier this month, ministers confirmed France would be excluded from a move to end quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals from amber list countries.
France was instead placed in a so-called "amber plus" category requiring all arrivals from France to continue to have to self-isolate for 10 days upon their arrivals, regardless of their vaccination status.
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