France is set to ban UK tourists this week in a bid to stop Omicron cases from spreading across borders.
UK travellers will no longer be allowed to enter the country for non-essential reasons from this weekend due to concern over a "extremely rapid" rise in cases, Sky News reports.
From midnight on Saturday, travellers must have an 'essential reason' to travel into France from the UK - but this does not include holidays or business.
In a statement, the French government said: "Faced with the extremely rapid spread of the Omicron variant in the UK, the government has chosen to reinstate the need for an essential reason for travel from and to the UK."
It added travellers will need to take a pre-departure PCR tests 24 hours before flying instead of the previous 48 hours and will also need to register the address of their stay in France.
They will have to test again on arrival and isolate "in a place they choose" for at least 48 hours pending the result.
French nationals and their spouses and children are unaffected by the new rules, as well as hauliers.
It comes as the remaining 11 countries on the red list were removed on Wednesday.
A number of southern African countries were added to the strict travel rules last month after the Omicron variant was first reported by health officials in South Africa.
Arrivals from Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe were required to pay for hotel quarantine when landing in any part of the UK.
Red list measures were originally implemented for travellers from these nations in a bid to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant.
But the number of cases attributed to the highly mutated Covid strain have recently surged in Scotland and the rest of the UK in recent days.
On Wednesday, 78,610 new cases were recorded in the UK - the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began.
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