France to be added to UK quarantine countries
People coming to the UK from France and the Netherlands will be forced to quarantine for 14 days from Saturday.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the measure - which also applies to people travelling from Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos, and Aruba, would kick in from 04:00 BST.
He added that this was necessary to keep coronavirus infections down.
Many of the 160,000 Britons in France face a scramble to return before 04:00 BST on Saturday.
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