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DUBLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Ireland is on track to ease restrictions from May 4 to allow the phased reopening of all retail stores and hairdressers and will also develop a plan for further reopenings in June and July, Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Thursday.
Ireland shut most shops, building sites and hospitality in late December after a surge of COVID-19 infections. It began gradually unwinding economic restrictions this week, with housebuilding permitted and all students returning to schools.
The third shutdown in the last year has turned one of the world’s highest incidence rates of COVID-19 in January into one of Europe’s lowest. The number of cases per 100,000 people measured over the past 14 days has fallen to 132 this week.
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FILE PHOTO: Garda (Irish police) officers monitor drivers to check if they have a valid reason for travel, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a checkpoint outside Dublin Airport, Ireland, January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland is to require arriving passengers to take a COVID-19 test on arrival in addition to one taken in the days before traveling, Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday.
“Even though we have the strictest border biosecurity already in the European Union, we’ll be making that stricter again in the coming weeks, starting with an additional PCR test on arrival as well as before people arrive,” he said.
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FILE PHOTO: Lab technicians work at RocDoc s rapid antigen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility in conjunction with the Department of Transport, for hauliers bound for France via Dublin Port, at Dublin Airport, Ireland January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government is considering adding more countries to a list subject to mandatory hotel quarantine on arrival because of the coronavirus, including the United States, Germany and France, Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said.
Ireland has some of the strictest travel restrictions in the European Union and last week followed England in bringing in hotel quarantine for arrivals of people from countries deemed “high risk” or those without a negative COVID-19 test.