Wales become this week the first territories to reconfiner their populations in Europe, hit by the second wave and is forced to multiply the restrictions to counteract the Covid-19. In Ireland, the population will be reconfinée from Wednesday at midnight, and for six weeks, but the schools will remain open. “If we unite our efforts for the next six weeks, we will have the opportunity to celebrate Christmas properly”, has launched the First irish minister Micheal Martin. Wales (3 million inhabitants) will be submitted starting from 18: 00 Friday to a confinement of two weeks, measure the harder introduced in the United Kingdom since the first wave of Covid-19 of the spring. In Ireland, as in Wales, businesses, non-essential will have to close.
For his part, the prime minister and Boris Johnson had announced in September a battery of new restrictions on England : closing at 22h pubs, bars and restaurants, telework encouraged, marriages limited to 15 participants, deferral of the return of the public to sporting events. The mask-wearing compulsory is extended to employees of shops, bars and restaurants, and the penalties more severe. These measures will be in place for “maybe six months”, said Boris Johnson. The prime minister called for “team spirit” and “discipline” of the British to comply with the new measures under the penalty of “having to go more far” in the restrictions. New restrictions have also been enacted to Liverpool: in the region of 1.5 million inhabitants, the meetings between different households will be prohibited indoors. It is recommended not to attend sporting events or visiting retirement homes or travelling non-essential.
The United Kingdom has put in place a quarantine for travelers from France, the netherlands and Malta since the 15th of August. It will need to be completed prior to the Public Health Passenger Locator Form available on the Internet and give an address and a telephone number for authorities to contact the interested parties for the duration of the quarantine. France has put a place a reciprocity on this measure of quarantine. Travellers arriving in England from continental Portugal, a popular destination for british tourists, Hungary and French territories overseas will have to undergo a quatorzaine due to a resurgence of the epidemic of Covid-19, announced on Thursday the british government. “The data show that we need to remove the Portugal (not Azores and Madeira), Hungary, French Polynesia, and the Meeting of the list of countries exempted from quarantine, to ensure the security of all”, has announced in a tweet, the minister of Transport of the uk.
The netherlands impose a quarantine
As indicated by the Quai d’orsay, the French travellers from the regions particularly affected by the Covid will now have to submit to a quarantine of ten days of their arrival in the netherlands, at their home. The areas concerned are : Paris and the départements of Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Ariège, Aube, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente, Corse-du-Sud, Côte-d’or, Doubs, France, Gard, Gers, Gironde, Haute-Corse, Haute-Garonne, Haute-Loire, Haute-Marne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Vienne, Hauts-de-Seine, Herault, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Landes, Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Maine-et-Loire, Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, the Val-de-Marne, Val-d’oise, Var, Vaucluse, Vienne and Yvelines. Passengers travelling to the netherlands by air must also complete a health declaration form before boarding. In the case where a traveller has any of the symptoms listed in the health declaration form, it will not be accepted on the vol This measure also applies to passengers in transit.
new restrictions in Portugal, a part of the country reconfinée
Three municipalities in the north of Portugal are well reconfinées since 23 October and travel across the country will be limited to the all saints ‘ day, announced by the government, while the number of new infections day-to-day has reached a new record. The approximately 150 000 inhabitants there are a total of the neighbouring municipalities of Felgueiras, Lousada and paços de Ferreira will have to meet starting this Friday a “civic duty, confinement in the home”, decided by the executive socialist in the council of ministers. They may only leave their home to go to work, go to school, go shopping, or buy drugs. Telecommuting, if it is possible, will become mandatory and the shops will close at 22: 00 pm
Some strict measures also concern throughout the country, gatherings are limited to 20 people, the consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the public space, the containment is mandatory for people who test positive, or under active vigilance.
No quarantine is required for French travellers, except if you come from the overseas territories. Special provisions are in force if you want to travel to the Azores and Madeira, visitors must present a negative test at COVID-19 made in the 72 hours prior to their landing, or perform at their arrival. In airports, to take the temperature of passengers at their arrival is mandatory. A reg
