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Video report by ITV News Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills
The French Government has said that in the next few hours it will establish a protocol to ensure that movement from the UK can resume .
In a post shared on Twitter by the French Embassy in the UK, French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said: In the next few hours, at European level, we’re going to establish a solid health protocol to ensure that movement from the UK can resume. Our priority: to protect our nationals and our fellow citizens.
ITV News Political Correspondent Paul Brand said that the French President Emmanuel Macron may require people to present proof of a negative Covid test once the borders are opened.
Currently six in 10 Londoners who have coronavirus have this new variant, the city s mayor said on Sunday morning.
On Saturday at a Covid briefing, Boris Johnson said this new variant was up to 70% more transmissible than the original variant.
Asked by ITV News Political Correspondent Paul Brand if the spread of the new variant was out of control , Matt Hancock confirmed it is and said cases are rising very, very sharply in London, the south-east of England, Essex and Hertfordshire .
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Speaking on BBC One s The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hancock warned that there are currently just over 18,000 in NHS hospitals with coronavirus.