Paris: France will allow international tourists who have a vaccine produced by India Asrazeneca to the country starting on Sunday.
At the same time, France tightened the border check to control the deployment of the Delta variant and protect the hospital, according to a statement from the Prime Minister Saturday.
The movement to receive vaccinated visitors with the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Indian Serum Institute came after global protests for the fact that the Covid-19 EU certificate only recognized the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in Europe.
Some other EU countries have received the Indian version, which is mainly used in U.K.
And around Africa.
Regulations that vary from each country are increasingly complicated this summer’s travel season.
France still does not recognize vaccinations by Chinese or Russian vaccines, only those who are authorized by the EU drug regulator: made by Pfizer / Bionth, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
Starting on Sundays, France will also begin to require anyone who is not vaccinated from England, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Greece or Cyprus to present a negative test of less than 24 hours to cross the French border.
Tunisia, Indonesia, Cuba and Mozambique are now added to France ‘red list’ ” countries with high viral risks, according to Saturday’s statement.
However, France will now receive tourists from red list countries if they are fully vaccinated.
France also shortens the time frame when someone is considered fully vaccinated after the second dose, becomes one week, not two.
When infection climbing, French President Emmanuel Macron this week ordered all health workers to vaccinate on September 15 and announce that the Covid-19 pass which would be needed in all restaurants, bars, hospitals and aircraft.
To get bait, people must be fully vaccinated, recently recovered from viruses, or have a fresh negative virus test.
The steps have encouraged the number of people to register for vaccination – but also encourage anger among several groups, and protests planned in various cities of France on Saturday against them.