France won’t impose 14-day quarantine on travellers from Schengen area and UK

Travellers who visit France from the open-border Schengen Area and the UK will not face a mandatory two-week quarantine, according to the French embassy in the U.K., Reuters reported.

France will not apply a mandatory two-week quarantine on travellers arriving from the open-border Schengen Area and the UK, Elysée Palace confirmed to CNN on Sunday.

This is regardless of the nationality of those travelling to France, CNN reported.

Elysée Palace did not comment on whether travellers from the U.S. would be subject to quarantine measures when entering France.

French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced a day earlier of a proposed measure to quarantine all people entering France from “abroad, Corsica and other overseas territory.”

The Schengen Area is a zone of 26 European countries that do not have internal borders and allow people to move between them freely. It includes countries such as Spain, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, and Poland.