France set to impose 14-day
coronavirus quarantine for travellers
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French Minister for Solidarity
and Health Olivier Veran, and French Interior Minister
Christophe Castaner attend a news conference after the cabinet meeting, as the
spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at the Elysee Palace,
in Paris, France May 2, 2020. Francois Mori/Pool via
REUTERS
PARIS (Reuters) - Travellers
to France, including French citizens returning
home, will face a compulsory two-week quarantine and possible isolation when
they arrive in the country to help slow the spread of coronavirus, the health
minister said on Saturday.
France, which has been the
fifth-hardest hit country with 24,594 deaths from COVID-19, is preparing to
gradually lift lockdown measures from May 11.
The new quarantine rules,
however, will be included in a decree specifying measures laid out in a bill
extending a state of emergency until July 24, a move that allows the government
to restrict freedom of movement.
“This quarantine will be
imposed on any person returning on French soil,” Health
Minister Olivier Veran told a press briefing after the weekly cabinet meeting.
He said the duration and
conditions of both quarantine for asymptomatic people and isolation for those
showing symptoms of COVID-19, the flu-like disease caused by the new
coronavirus, would be defined in a decree to be published.
Decisions to isolate people
would be scrutinised by judges to ensure they are justified and fair, he added.
It was not immediately clear
whether the quarantine would only apply to people arriving from outside
Europe’s open-border Schengen area, whether they would need to self-isolate at
home or in hotels, and for how long the measures would be in place.
Reporting by Michel Rose; Editing by Helen Popper
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