Due to a rapid increase in Covid cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, the French government has slashed isolation times for vaccinated people but increasing isolation for the unvaccinated from public venues. This move is aimed at easing the financial and social burden of the recent outbreak. For the fully vaccinated, the self-isolation times, if tested positive, will drop from 10 days to seven, and can be cut down to five with a negative test result. The French health minister said that unvaccinated people have to isolate themselves for ten days, with a possible exit after seven days under the same conditions.