In a new effort to combat the spread of a second wave of coronavirus, France has made tests compulsory for travelers entering from 16 countries classified as “red,” with the United States topping the list.
The announcement came at the end of a defense council meeting devoted to the Covid-1 9 spread around the world, which is sparking calls for tighter border controls.
“We know that there is no detection strategy in several of these countries and access to testing is difficult,” the minister said. “As a result, we generalize the evidence on arrival.” Positive instances will be quarantined for 14 days.
As of August 1, according to the new measures, strengthening border controls for passengers in 16 countries where recovery of the disease is strong means that they will have to provide a negative check at the beginning or be reviewed upon arrival to enter French. the country’s airports and ports.
Therefore, evidence of a negative of less than 72 hours will be mandatory for passengers from 4 countries:
United States
United Arab Emirates
• Bahrain
• Panama
Travellers from the following countries will arrive in France:
• Algeria
• Turkey
• South Africa
• Brazil
Chile
Israel
• India
Serbia
• Qatar
Montenegro
• Peru
Kuwait
As borders with these countries are closed, the measure considers the movement of French citizens living in those countries or nationals of solid countries in France.
According to the most recent figures, another 15 million people have become inflamed worldwide, adding 4 million in the United States.
The countries with the highest number of new deaths are Brazil with 1,311 new deaths, the United States with 1,225 and India with 740. France has recorded 10 new deaths since Thursday.
According to Frenchman Figaro, the French government is “concerned about the rest of the measures and the accumulation in instances among 20- to 40-year-olds, which can lead to an acceleration of the virus flow.”
The French government is planning information campaigns to be implemented through the summer. In France, the number of cases continue to increase with “more than 1000” Thursday and “10 new outbreaks” of infection, according to the Directorate General of Health (DGS).
This is the epidemic situation in the red listed countries that must have mandatory tests before departure:
‘ Bahrain: With one of the highest per capita coronavirus infection rates in the world, the Gulf state has declared a death rate among the lowest, at 0.34%. Authorities have reported more than 37,000 cases and 130 deaths for a population of 1.6 million.
. United Arab Emirates: 343 people hav died until now. An important hub for international airport connections, the country’s economy is suffering greatly from the fall in air traffic. From August 1 the country is making Covid-19 tests mandatory for all people entering and in transit, regardless of the country of departure while the measure is already being applied to travel arriving to Abu Dhabi.
. Panama: The Central American country is going through an escalation in coronavirus cases and deaths. Authorities have reported 1,209 deaths since the start of the epidemic and the death rate is over 2%.
. The United States exceeded four million officially registered instances on Thursday. The rate of cases, the number of hospitalizations and the number of deaths (1 6,596) mean that the country is far from containing the virus.
The United States had previously been included in a “red list” of high-risk countries that the British government had asked not for non-essential reasons due to its high rate of coronavirus cases.
Travel restrictions have been easy in England by more than 50 countries, adding almost all EU countries, British territories such as Bermuda and Gibraltar, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
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