French President Macron set out the detailed timetable for reopening the country, including reopening bars and cafés and lifting the curfew. Now is time to France to open borders to Americans!
And there was one date particularly important to Americans, who have largely been barred from France since March 2020. The second stage of the reopening on Wednesday, June 9th includes the reopening of France’s borders to all non-EU visitors for all types of travel – including family visits, tourism and visits from second-home owners.
France is putting itself back on the menu as a destination for international tourists who have had coronavirus vaccines. From June 9, a classification of countries will be implemented on the basis of health indicators according to the level of circulation of the virus. This list will be re-evaluated every two weeks. But at the time I am writing, on June 4th, travel will be possible from June 9 without restriction for vaccinated American tourists.
Tourism to France will still not be possible from countries wrestling with virus surges and worrisome variants. This “red list” for the moment has 16 countries, including India, South Africa and Brazil. Even vaccinated, travelers from red countries would still need to justify the trip and quarantine for a week.
Outside of Europe, most of the rest of the world is classed as “orange countries” in the new travel rulebook released Friday by the French government. Vaccinated visitors from “orange” countries — including the U.S. and Britain — will no longer need to quarantine on arrival, or have to justify the reasons for their trip to France. They will, however, still be asked for a negative PCR test no older than 72 hours, or a negative antigenic test of no more than 48 hours. Unvaccinated children will be allowed in with vaccinated adults, but will have to show a negative test from age 11.
For the green countries, there is no active circulation of the virus, no worrying variants identified. This concerns the countries of the European Area, Australia, South Korea, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Singapore. For these countries, unvaccinated people will be able to come to France without testing.
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