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France decides not to impose a third nationwide lockdown, opts for tighter border restrictions inste

02/02/2021

France decides not to impose a third nationwide lockdown, opts for tighter border restrictions inste

Against expectations, France has resisted imposing a nationwide lockdown, choosing to introduce new Covid-19 border restrictions instead.


Under the new restrictions, all non-essential travel from outside the EU has been banned and testing requirements for travellers from within the EU have been tightened.


French Prime Minister Jean Castex said France's night curfew would also be more tightly enforced and large shopping centres would close.


It had been expected that French President Emmanuel Macron would impose a third national lockdown to contain Covid-19. However, the French premiere opted to tighten existing restrictions on travel and shopping instead.


The move sees France following a different path than its two biggest neighbours Britain and Germany, at a time when the more contagious UK variant of the disease is spreading rapidly across Europe.


[Related reading: Moderna says its vaccine will work against new COVID variants]


"Everything suggests that a new wave could occur because of the variant, but perhaps we can avoid it thanks to the measures that we decided early and that the French people are respecting," Health Minister Olivier Veran told the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper on Sunday.


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