France '' on edge of signing up with travel quarantine red list' 'as coronavirus cases double in 3 weeks
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Ministers will go over today whether holidaymakers going back to the UK from France need to have to go into 14- day quarantine as the country suffers a spike in coronavirus cases.
Downing Street will dispute adding France to its “red list” of higher-risk locations after it tape-recorded 10,800 brand-new Covid-19 infections in the previous week.
Changes to the list will be thought about at a conference chaired by Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, The Times reports.
However, the decision might be delayed up until later in the week as the Government continues to keep track of the circumstance.
” As we speak now France is probably simply shy of crossing the line but it’s certainly right on the cusp,” a source told the newspaper.
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” It’s such a big refer to it as’s likely that they may want to wait a couple of more days and get some more information.”
Last year 9.27 million Britons holidayed in France, making it the most popular destination after Spain.
The country is seeing around 2,000 brand-new cases of the illness each day compared to 1,000 3 weeks earlier, French Prime Minister Jean Castex told a press rundown on Tuesday.
” About 25 new clusters are identified every day compared to 5 three weeks earlier,” he added.
France’s 14- day average of 29.4 cases per 100,000 compares with 17.1 in the UK, according to data put together by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Meanwhile, Portugal is seeing a sharp drop in cases, meaning it is likely to be contributed to the safe list of so-called travel corridors
But a decision isn’t expected till next week at the earliest, according to The Times.
The current infection rates for European hotspots are as follows:
Spain– 90.3 (cases per 100,000)
Romania– 85.7
Malta– 63.0
Belgium– 61.7
Netherlands– 34.6
France– 29.4
Portugal– 24.6.
Poland– 23.7
UK– 17.1
Greece– 14.2
Germany– 13.3
Italy– 7.5
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