France is banning travel from the United Kingdom without "compelling reasons" from December 18.
Leisure trips or non-urgent business will not be considered valid reasons for travel into France from Saturday.
The government is making the move to try to control the influx of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
From FSN's bureau in Paris, here's Ross Cullen.
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