Once the legislation is passed by the Oireachtas, it will take “a week or two” to “operationalise it”, Mr Varadkar told reporters. However, the Government has already received offers from some hotels to accommodate travellers who arrive from certain high-risk countries or without a Covid-19 PCR test and must undergo mandatory quarantine. Mr Varadkar, however, said he was a “strong advocate of a two-island strategy”. You’re going to have people transiting through Dublin to get to Britain, to Britain to get to Ireland, all of those obvious problems that were always going to arrive when you have mandatory quarantine,” Mr Varadkar said. Meanwhile, Mr Varadkar said the Government planned to “refresh” the “Living with Covid-19” plan and announce the modified strategy on the week of February 22nd.

Source: The Irish Times February 10, 2021 02:13 UTC