Tunisair said on Saturday unvaccinated passengers of France-bound flights from Tunisia  are subject to the compelling reasons regime in the wake of  the COVID-19 restrictions imposed by  French authorities.

Under these measures, French nationals, their spouses and children and European Union citizens and their spouses and children who have their primary residence in France or who pass through France in transit to their  primary residence in a European country or the country of their nationality are allowed to enter France.

These passengers must submit, when checking in Tunisia, a negative PCR test or antigen detection test  carried out less than 48 hours before the flight.
A compulsory antigen detection test is performed upon arrival before passengers are placed in a mandatory ten-day quarantine under police control.

Vaccinated travellers, who received vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), will not be subject to compelling measures. Similarly, they will not have to present a negative PCR test upon arrival or enter into quarantine.

Fully vaccinated passengers who received EMA recognised vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson) are allowed to travel from France to Tunisia, the airline further said. They will not be subject to the compelling reasons regime. A PCR test will be required in accordance with rules of access to Tunisia.

Passengers who are not fully vaccinated remain subject to the compelling reasons regime the list of which is drawn up in the travel certificate issued by the Interior Ministr

A foreign national returning to his country is a compelling reason to travel to a red-listed country.

Source: TAP News Agency