As of this Friday, those traveling from the UK to France will no longer have to prove that their travel is essential or take mandatory isolation. Still, the requirement to take a Covid-19 diagnostic test within 24 hours remains..

To this end, anyone who has tested negative for Covid-19 can enter French territory. However, it is mandatory to be fully vaccinated.

Non-essential travel between the two countries was prohibited from December 17, 2021.

At the time, the French government had demanded an "essential reason for travel" between the two countries for both "unvaccinated and vaccinated" citizens according to the press release from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued at the time.

When it was implemented, the measure was related to the increase in cases of the Omicron variant in the UK, with the UK government admitting in December that this variant was endemic in the population.