France drops pre-entry tests

13th February 2022, by Abi Butcher

France has dropped pre-entry tests for vaccinated travellers and skiers. Pic: Tignes

France has joined fellow ski nations Switzerland and Norway in dropping all pre-entry testing for Covid-vaccinated travellers.

The requirements to take an antigen test 48 hours before travel to France was dropped at 00:01 on Saturday morning with the government announcing only on Friday that it was scrapping the requirement that night, saying: “Proof of vaccination will be sufficient to come to France whatever country you are coming from, just as it was before the spread of the Omicron variant”.

Although the move was said to be ‘imminent’ earlier in the week, its timing will have angered parents who had booked expensive tests to take families away for the half-term break.

Unvaccinated children aged 17 and under are permitted to travel to France without testing if they are accompanied by a vaccinated adult, though they will need to test every 24 hours to obtain a lift pass or enter restaurants or bars — unless they have proof of recovery (from a PCR).

Those British families travelling next weekend will fare better — no antigen tests either way to and from France.

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