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Ireland ends hotel quarantine for all arrivals

Government
Will Payne
27 September 2021

Mandatory hotel quarantine for those returning to the Republic of Ireland from designated countries has ended. 

Hancock and Case joked about the government's hotel quarantine policy (credit: Marten Bjork/Unsplash)

All destinations on the country’s list of designated states have now been removed, Ireland’s health minister announced on Saturday (25 September). 

According to the BBC, around 50 people were in hotel quarantine at the time of the announcement and they have since been released. 

Those arriving in Ireland without vaccination proof or a negative PCR test will have to quarantine at home.

Health minister Stephen Donnelly said the "successful operation" of the country’s hotel quarantine policy played a "central role in protecting the population".