Nearly half a million Brits in France face a scramble to get home as the UK announces quarantine restrictions from this weekend

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• British tourists face a race to return from France after Boris Johnson said that returning holidaymakers from there would have to quarantine for 14 days from this weekend.
• France, along with five other countries, would be removed from the "green list" of countries which are exempt from quarantine restrictions as the country recorded a sharp uptick in coronavirus infections.
• Travel bosses have warned that it will be hard for Brits to get back to the UK.
• "It's important that people understand it's not going to be easy to get back," said a spokesman for the Eurotunnel.
• French health officials recorded 2,699 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Thursday, bringing infection rates to levels not seen since mid-April when the country was under lockdown.
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Hundreds of thousands of British tourists face a scramble to return from France after Boris Johnson's UK government announced that holidaymakers returning from there would have to quarantine for 14 days as of this weekend.

The UK on Thursday said France, along with five other countries including the Netherlands and Malta, would be removed from the "green list" of countries which are exempt from quarantine restrictions as the country recorded a sharp uptick in coronavirus infections.

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