Government of Jersey

COVID-19 travel classification of France (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 29 June 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

At various stages throughout the Covid pandemic the government of Jersey posted various updated travel and isolation restrictions and rules on the gov.je website, under the Coronavirus web pages.

However the website does not seem to keep a summary of the historic rules and restrictions posted. Jersey created a traffic light system listing the countries that were classified red, amber or green for travel restriction purposes.

What I want to know is: what dates France was declared red, amber and green for travel restriction and isolation purposes.

Or is there a way to access the historic Coronavirus updated posts and I can search through for what I need myself.

I am trying to build a historic timeline recording the Coronavirus events and the dates at which they were announced.

Response

The Government of Jersey holds the following information in relation to the travel classification of France:

3 July 2020	At the introduction of the Safer Travel Policy, France was classified Green
9 August 2020	France was reclassified as Amber
2 September 2020	France categorised on a regional basis
5 January 2021	All international places classified Red
17 May 2021	International classifications reapplied
13 July 2021	Geographic classification process ends and is replaced by vaccination-based assessment
7 February 2022	Safer Travel Policy suspended