Visitors to Ireland will have to produce a negative COVID-19 test taken within the previous 72 hours, as the country s government brings in a raft of tough new restrictions.
The requirement for a PCR test will initially apply to travellers from Great Britain and South Africa - who until Friday night are banned from entering Ireland.
The new arrangements will begin on Saturday before being extended to all countries.
However, even with a negative test result, visitors must still self-isolate for 14 days. Failure to produce the negative test result could mean a fine of up to €2,500 (£2,261) and/or imprisonment for up to six months.
December 27, 2020
Rishi Sunak, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, in London in September. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Simon Dawson
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said the trade deal reached with the European Union should reassure people worried about the economic damage of Brexit and can be an “enormously unifying moment for our country.”
London will continue discussions with Brussels over access and equivalence for financial services, the chancellor said on Sunday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the agreement did not go as far as he wants for the sector.
The deal, which will be voted on by lawmakers in Parliament on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, “gives us a strong platform to look forward optimistically and put the divisions of the past behind us,” Sunak said in a pooled TV interview. “For those who were anxious about the economic implications of leaving, they should be enormously reassured by the comprehensive nature of this free trade agreement.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Tuesday said he was hopeful that a free-trade agreement would be concluded between Britain and the European Union during the next couple of weeks.
“We still don’t know what will happen there, but obviously we are all hopeful that we will see an FTA concluded in the next couple of weeks,” Varadkar told a briefing with the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.
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