French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation on April 18, that France was finalising plans to lift restrictions for French and American citizens to travel in and out of the country.
Macron said the French government was “working hard” to come up with a concrete proposal that would allow vaccinated US citizens to enter France, and would progressively lift restrictions from the beginning of May.
The day before, Prime Minister, Jean Castex, said France would lift its travel restrictions for both French and European Union citizens travelling to France from South Africa. From April 24, French or EU citizens arriving in France from South Africa, Brazil, Chile or Argentina will need a negative PCR test result, taken within 36 hours of arrival, will be subject to antigen tests on arrival, and have to quarantine for 10 days under police surveillance.
Visitors of other nationalities travelling from these four countries are only permitted to enter France if they have “exceptional circumstances”.
