Fully vaccinated Britons no longer face Covid testing restrictions when travelling to France.
The expected relaxation of rules came into force on Saturday (February 12), the day after the UK dropped the need for jabbed arrivals into the country to take tests.
The French change comes as countries across the world drop travel restrictions to boost tourism.
The announcement came from French consul-general to London Gullaume Bazard in a tweet on Friday night.
The Foreign Office updated its travel advice to reflect the removal of the need for fully vaccinated travellers from the UK to provide a negative PCR or antigen test result before travel to France.
It also confirmed that travellers from the UK to France who are not fully vaccinated no longer need to self-isolate on arrival. But they must fill in an international travel certificate to prove the reason for essential travel and provide a negative PCR test result taken within 72 hours or an antigen test result taken within 48 hours pre-departure if aged 12 years and over.
EasyJet responded by describing the easing of French restrictions as “amazing news”.
It followed Spain announcing that rules for young travellers aged 12 to 17 from the UK would be relaxed from today (Monday) providing they take a PCR or similar test.
The Norwegian government removed all Covid restrictions from Saturday, with prime minister Jonas Gahr Store saying the pandemic is no longer a “great threat” to most people.
Rules on social distancing, mask wearing and isolation no longer apply and all remaining entry restriction removed.
Store said: “The primary objective of the ‘live with’ strategy is for us to be able to live with Covid-19 in a way that minimises the burden on the individual and on society.
“Going ahead we need to be well prepared to handle possible outbreaks of Covid-19 and new virus variants.”