The Government’s hotel quarantine list is to be extended but it will not include additional countries from the EU or the United States.
Despite public health advice, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has insisted passengers from the US and EU countries should not be required to pay for hotel quarantining on arrival in Ireland.
It came after Health Minister Stephen Donnelly proposed adding 43 more countries to the quarantine list, including France, Germany and Italy. Mr Donnelly is still anxious to have these countries added to the list.
Acting chief medical officer Ronan Glynn also supported the addition of EU countries to the list over increasing fears about new variants and high-levels of Covid-19 transmission in these states.
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EU states and US dropped from mandatory hotel quarantine list Quarantine system extended to 26 countries rather than the 43 originally proposed
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Travellers coming from the United States and EU member states will not yet be subjected to mandatory hotel quarantine.
The Department of Health has announced the extension of mandatory hotel quarantine to 26 countries and states instead of the 43 that had been mooted earlier in the week.
A major row had erupted within Government over plans by the Department of Health to extend mandatory hotel quarantine to 43 additional countries, including the US, France and Germany.