Thousands of British tourists beat a hasty retreat from France, packing out planes, trains and ferries to return to the U.K. to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home.
People queue in line to check-in for the cross channel ferry in Calais, France, Friday Aug.14, 2020. British holiday makers in France were mulling whether to return home early Friday to avoid having to self-isolate for 14 days following the U.K. government's decision to reimpose quarantine restrictions on France amid a recent pick-up in coronavirus infections.
The exodus was prompted late Thursday when the British government took France off a list of nations exempt from traveler quarantine requirements because of a sharp rise in new coronavirus infections there.A spokesman for the Le Shuttle car-carrying carrying rail service linking Britain and France under the English Channel said 12,000 people tried to book tickets in the hour after the new rules were announced, compared with just hundreds normally.
″It’s not like during lockdown, where you can go for a run, go to the shops, come back,” he said. “None of that, we have to stay in, for two weeks.”
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