Holiday gamble Infection rates around Europe

France became the latest country where returning Britons will need to quarantine, after it hit an infection rate of 20 cases per 100,000 people for the week ending Aug 13.

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, said yesterday that 20 cases per 100,000 was a “threshold” for quarantine.

However, many regions of France were comfortably below that rate. With an infection rate above 20, the Netherlands, was also added to the quarantine list.

Denmark, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Croatia could all be next in line as their rates are above 14 per 100,000 and rising. There are fears Greece and Ireland could join the list as cases are rising.