Passengers fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca Covishield not accepted for exception in Ireland for mandatory Hotel Quarantine

Requirements are in place for those travelling to Ireland from designated high-risk Category 2 countries and evidence of a negative or ‘not detected’ result from a COVID-19 Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test carried out no more than 72 hours before arrival into Ireland.

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Mandatory Hotel Quarantine is required for all passengers arriving into Ireland from designated states and are required to pre-book accommodation in a quarantine hotel, and to pre-pay for their stay

The Minister for Health has signed regulations introducing exemptions from the requirement for Mandatory Hotel Quarantine.  The new exemptions apply from midnight on Friday night, 16th April for:

  • Passengers fully vaccinated with approved COVID-19 vaccines
  • Families travelling with new-born babies
Arrangements for passengers fully vaccinated with approved COVID-19 vaccines

Arrivals seeking to avail of this exemption must have documentary evidence of having received a full course of one of the following vaccines and have completed the final dose of that vaccine a sufficient period prior to travel to Ireland to be regarded as fully vaccinated. Details as follows:

Certification of Vaccination for the purposes of this exemption means a record or evidence in written or electronic form in the Irish language or the English language, or, where in a language other than the Irish or English language, an official translation into the Irish or English language, that contains the following information: 

  • confirmation that the person to whom the certification applies is a vaccinated person;
  • the date or dates on which the person was vaccinated;
  • the body in the state concerned  implementing the vaccination programme (howsoever described) on behalf of that state that administered or caused to be administered the vaccination to the person concerned;

A person who is exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine or released from hotel quarantine early is still legally required to have a negative pre-departure RT-PCR test and to complete a period of self-quarantine at home/at the address given on the Passenger Locator Form.

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