Next Tuesday the Cabinet will consider a Bill to enforce mandatory quarantine in hotels for certain incoming travellers for the first time as part of the State’s Covid-19 response. Here is what we know so far:Who exactly will be required to quarantine in a hotel, and have the hotels been chosen? At present, the plan is that mandatory quarantine at a designated facility will apply to all passengers, regardless of residency, arriving from countries that are the subject of concerns about new Covid-19 variants there. The Cabinet may also consider introducing hotel quarantine for returning Irish holidaymakers, although a Government spokesman stated that “mandatory hotel quarantine is being introduced for travel from specific countries of particular concern, rather than based on the reason for travel”. Under the draft plans, it is likely that you will have to book a slot to quarantine under a special mandatory quarantine system before you arrive, and those slots could be limited.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2021 01:18 UTC