Ireland is leading the EU on mandatory hotel quarantine and is has one of the fastest vaccine roll-outs in the bloc, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said. He said Irish people need to see unity from their politicians, decrying claims that the vaccine roll-out in Ireland is a “debacle” or that mandatory quarantine is being introduced much too late. In fact Ireland is doing well on vaccine distribution in an EU contest, and is leading the trading bloc on mandatory hotel quarantine, he said. Austria, Belgium Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, and Germany all had no mandatory quarantine in a hotel or a government facility, he said. In Greece mandatory hotel quarantine applied, “but only if your incoming test is positive”.

Source: Irish Independent March 01, 2021 17:36 UTC