Minister for Health announces update to list of designated States - 27 August 2021
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 27 August 2021
- Last updated on: 31 August 2021
The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, has announced his intention to add 1 additional State to the list of designated States and remove 23.
People who do not have valid proof of vaccination* or recovery* arriving to Ireland having been in or transited through designated States in the previous 14 days must enter Mandatory Hotel Quarantine.
The additional country to be added to the list is Ecuador.
Ecuador will soon be included on the booking system for Mandatory Hotel Quarantine, with non-exempt passengers from this State entering hotel quarantine starting from 04.00 on Tuesday, 31 August. More information on Mandatory Hotel Quarantine is available at www.gov.ie/quarantine.
The Minister has also removed the following States from the list of designated States for Mandatory Hotel Quarantine with effect from today:
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Georgia
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Pakistan
- Paraguay
- Russia
- South Africa
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Zimbabwe
If you are travelling to Ireland, you must fill out an electronic Passenger Locator Form before departure.
You also have to have appropriate valid proof of vaccination or recovery, or to present evidence of a negative RT-PCR result from a test taken within 72 hours prior to arrival into the country. More information is available on www.gov.ie/travel.
Notes
See the full list of designated States.
If your journey originates in a country which is designated:
If you have valid proof of vaccination, you will need to:
- present evidence of a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival
- undergo self-quarantine
If you receive a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken from day 5 onwards after arrival into Ireland, you will be able to end your self-quarantine.
To be fully vaccinated you must have waited the correct length of time after the final dose of the EMA-approved vaccine.
The table below sets out what fully vaccinated means.
| A full course of any one of the following vaccines: | Regarded as fully vaccinated after: |
| 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech Vaccine: BNT162b2 (Comirnaty®) | 7 days |
| 2 doses of Moderna Vaccine: CX-024414 (Moderna®) | 14 days |
| 2 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine: ChAdOx1-SARS-COV-2 (Vaxzevria® or Covishield) | 15 days |
| 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Vaccine: Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant] (Janssen®) | 14 days |
If you have valid proof that you have recovered from COVID-19, for example: a recovery certificate or a positive RT-PCR test result taken not less than 11 days and not more than 180 days before arrival in the State, you will need to undergo self-quarantine.
If you receive a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken from day 5 onwards after arrival into Ireland, you will be able to end your self-quarantine.
If you do not have valid proof of vaccination or recovery, you will need to:
- present evidence of a negative RT-PCR test result taken in previous 72 hours before arrival
- undergo mandatory hotel quarantine
If you receive a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken from day 10 onwards after arrival into Ireland, you will be able to leave hotel quarantine.
All other rules around travel should also be followed such as the completion of the online Passenger Locator Form in advance and self-quarantine/quarantine at home in certain circumstances. Antigen tests are not acceptable for entry into Ireland.