Whereas touring to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, Jean Castex introduced the generalization of screening assessments for the coronavirus on arrival at French airports. – Thomas SAMSON / AFP
Prime Minister Jean Castex introduced on Friday necessary assessments for vacationers coming to France from 16 international locations the place the Covid-19 virus is circulating strongly, together with the USA and Algeria, in addition to a generalization of assessments to the arrival at airports.
Constructive circumstances positioned in fourteen
Referring to “16 countries in the world where the viral circulation is particularly strong”, he indicated that for these international locations, vacationers “must have a test certifying that they are not carriers of the virus”, when touring at Roissy. “We know that in a number of these countries, there is no screening strategy and that access to tests is difficult, as a result of which we have decided to generalize tests on arrival”, a- he added, specifying that constructive circumstances will probably be positioned in fourteen.
He additionally “strongly recommended” Friday to the French to “avoid” to go to Catalonia, within the north-east of Spain, “as long as the health situation does not improve”, due to the upsurge of the coronavirus epidemic. “We are in discussions with the Spanish and Catalan authorities so that they ensure that, in the other direction, the flows are as limited as possible”, added the Prime Minister.