From today all passengers arriving into Ireland can end their movement restriction after five days with negative Covid-19 test

Before today and besides some specific exceptions, people arriving into Ireland from orange, red or grey countries were required to restrict their movements for 14 days. 

This is now to change and people arriving from those countries can end their movement restriction if they receive a ‘negative/not detected’ PCR test that was taken at least five days after arrival. 

At Dublin Airport, there are two testing facilities being run by Randox and RocDoc that have the option of a drive-through test or a walk-in test.

Between them, the two providers have testing capacity of more than 12,000 tests per day if needed and this will shortly be expanded to 15,000. 

People can take a test from other providers but in all cases the government says that people should wait for a negative test result to be returned before ending the period of restricted movements.

All passengers arriving to Ireland from overseas are still required to complete a Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form.

Speaking on Friday, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said “there is no ban on international travel or people coming home” to Ireland but that the government is asking people not to make a journey here if they don’t think it is essential. 

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/airport-arrivals-covid-19-ireland-5280814-Nov2020/

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