Thousands of British tourists beat a hasty retreat from France, packing out planes, trains and ferries to return to the U.K. by the early hours of Saturday morning to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine at home. Anyone arriving back from France from Saturday must stay at home for two weeks to make sure
A passengers waits at Eurostar Terminal of the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. British holidaymakers 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. People queue in line to check-in for the Euro Tunnel train to the U.K. in Coquelles, France, Friday Aug.14, 2020.
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.”As well as complicating the return home for the hundreds of thousands of British tourists in France, the U.K. move has the potential to upend the plans of those planning trips in the days ahead, particularly of families during the run-up to schools reopening in September.
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