More now on France easing its travel rules for vaccinated British travellers.

The French tourism minister has announced that France will lift its ban on UK holidaymakers from Friday morning.

Travellers who are fully vaccinated will be allowed to enter France if they have evidence of a negative coronavirus test taken within 24 hours of departure. The requirement to isolate on arrival will be scrapped and they will no longer need a compelling reason to enter.

The decision to end the ban on non-essential travel will be a relief to travel firms and for Brits who have ski holidays booked this winter.

The surge of Omicron cases in the UK before Christmas led the French government to impose tough restrictions on cross-channel travel but since the new year there had been strong hints that France was going to loosen these measures.

The fact that Omicron cases in France itself have spiked is one major reason. On Wednesday, the country recorded 361,719 new Covid cases.

Source: bbc