Summary:
Ireland is planning to ease quarantine restrictions for people traveling from certain low Covid-19 affected countries. A “green list” of countries will be published on July 20 or prior to that said transport minister Eamon Ryan.
The government had said in June that the restrictions would be eased from July 9 but has been delayed due to concern about travel-related infections.
Neighboring Britain on Friday ended coronavirus quarantines for people arriving in England from more than 50 countries.
Ryan said Ireland would drop the quarantine for countries whose infection rates "are similar if not better than our own."
Ireland now has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, with just three infections per 100,000 people during the past two weeks, so the list of exempted countries is likely to be much shorter than England`s, government ministers have indicated.
Ryan said that the government was considering "a certain element of testing" for COVID-19 at airports, but that every visitor would not be tested.