New Covid testing rules delayed until Sunday for inbound travellers

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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signed off on the regulations this evening.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF new rules requiring all overseas travellers to Ireland to have a negative Covid-19 test has been delayed until Sunday.

“We will still be able to travel it is not a restriction either within the country or outside the country. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signed off on the regulations amending requirements around international travel to Ireland this evening. Anyone travelling to Ireland after midnight on Saturday will need to produce a negative Covid-19 test.

“I think people will appreciate that a number of departments are involved here. It takes time where you have to engage and make sure that the regulations are correct. This is simply procedural. It’s not that there has been a change at all. There is just a little bit longer time needed between departments to finalise these,” she said.

The new measures, which are be reviewed again in a fortnight’s time, come amid increasing concern about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and will apply to persons arriving into the State at ports and airports from overseas, and including people travelling from Britain.

 

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Steven Donnelly has been the health minister for how long now 🤔 just ask yourself how many people have died in the last two years with everything we have been told by Simon Donnelly our health minister. Cut out the bullshit

Make it a great Christmas

Ridiculous decision never been safer to travel

Scrap vaccines certs then.They are useless.Scrap them for everything,not only for travel.

AND SO IT BEGINS

SarahAMcInerney won’t be happy about this 😳

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