PARIS: France will relax Covid isolation rules from Monday, the government announced, in a bid to ease their impact on society and the economy.
Fully vaccinated people who test positive will only have to isolate for seven days regardless of the variant they were infected with, but can leave quarantine after five days if they show an antigen or negative PCR test. There will be no quarantine for fully inoculated people who have a close contact test positive. However, people must respect protective measures and "undergo regular testing", health minister Olivier Veran said.
Until now, those who tested positive had to isolate for 10 days with their close contracts also quarantined for a week. F rance also put the US on its Covid travel "red list", meaning unvaccinated people coming into the country will have to quarantine for 10 days.
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