Italy and Austria among countries removed from mandatory hotel quarantine list as two more added
Updated: 8 May 2021, 22:13
ITALY and Austria are among the latest countries that have been removed from Ireland s mandatory quarantine list tonight.
Passengers arriving from Armenia, Aruba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Curaçao, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, North Macedonia and Ukraine also no longer have to stay at a designated hotel.
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A member of the defence forces escorts passengers from Terminal 1 arrivals hall at Dublin AirportCredit: PA:Press Association
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Nepal and Anguilla are to be added to the list.
People who have transited through the countries must also book their stay at a hotel.
LMFM By Marc O Driscoll The European Affairs Minister says the travel measures will hopefully allow people to have the summer we all want.
The Minister for European Affairs says more countries have been added to the mandatory hotel quarantine list in an effort to allow the Government to ease Covid-19 restrictions here in the coming months.
The Cabinet has agreed to designate a further 16 states as high-risk, including the US, Canada, France, Italy and Belgium.
The move comes following concerns about new variants of the virus and despite worries about the system s capacity to handle the additional volume of inbound travellers.
16 more countries added to mandatory hotel quarantine list
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Passengers arriving from another 16 countries will have to stay in mandatory quarantine hotels.
The cabinet agreed to add countries including the US, Canada, France, Italy and Belgium to the list last night.
From next Thursday, passengers arriving from those countries will have to stay in a designated hotel for two weeks.
Albania, Israel and St Lucia have been removed and are no longer deemed high-risk.
The European Affairs Minister said there could be more changes to the mandatory hotel quarantine list over the coming weeks.
Minister Thomas Byrne said the list will be kept under constant review.
EMMANUEL MACRON s closest ally, Clement Beaune, lashed out against vaccine producer AstraZeneca in a bid to justify the EU s extension to the jabs exports ban.