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COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Travel advice
From Department of Health
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From Department of Health
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Last updated on
COVID-19 is still spreading around the world and many countries are experiencing new waves of infections.
All non-essential travel overseas should be avoided.
You must fill in a form before you arrive in Ireland called the COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form. Failure to do so is an offence.
The form may be used by health authorities to contact you in order to verify your location in the country.
It will also help contact tracers get in touch with you should someone on your flight or ferry be confirmed as having COVID-19.
You are not required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form if you are an essential supply chain worker (that is, air and ship crew and hauliers) or if you are an accredited diplomat.
If you are travelling onwards to Northern Ireland you will have to fill out a portion of the form.
You can download the form here.
You are also asked to restrict your movements for 14 days if you arrive in Ireland from any overseas country. This includes Irish citizens coming home.
Restricting your movements means staying indoors and avoiding contact with other people and social situations as much as possible.
Further advice for people who have recently returned from abroad is available from the HSE.
The Form will be used to facilitate a system of follow up checks to make sure people who travel to the country are staying where they said that they would. The Form will also ensure more accurate and expeditious contact tracing, should we have a suspected or confirmed case on a flight or ferry coming into Ireland.
By law, passengers arriving to Ireland from overseas are required to complete this form, with the exception of the following:
Passengers who are travelling immediately onwards to Northern Ireland should indicate this and will be required to fill out a portion of the form (name and signature).
Data collected will be stored securely for 28 days after which time it will be destroyed.
The form is available to download above and on www.hse.ie and can be completed well in advance.
Passengers arriving into Ireland from overseas are advised to restrict their movements for 14 days on entry into the State.
Restricting your movements means staying indoors and avoiding contact with other people and social situations as much as possible and is more stringent than the public health measures applying to the wider public.
Public health advice for people arriving into the State from overseas is to restrict your movements for 14 days.
You do not need to remain in the country for 14 days. But you should follow this public health advice for the time that you will be in Ireland.
The government has produced detailed guidance for bereaved families in the context of COVID-19 which is available here.
Anyone travelling to Ireland from a Green List area will not have to restrict their movements. But you should continue to follow public health advice for the time that you are in Ireland.
This list will be reviewed every two weeks.
To help protect everyone from the spread of COVID-19 all residents in Ireland are asked to avoid non-essential travel overseas. Those arriving into the State are asked to take additional measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Following international travel, you will be asked to restrict your movements for 14 days, which means staying indoors and avoiding contact with other people and social situations as much as possible.
Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as much as possible.
You can still go outside to exercise by yourself as long as you keep 2 metres distance from other people.
If you develop a fever or any respiratory symptoms phone your GP or HSELive on 1850 24 1850.
Don't:
For more advice on how to restrict your movements visit the HSE website.
Government advice is to avoid all non-essential travel overseas. Follow up-to-date travel information from the Department of Foreign Affairs for travel advice on countries and regions affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
The department is advising against all non-essential travel overseas. This includes Great Britain but does not apply to Northern Ireland. It also includes all travel by cruise ship. This decision was taken on the advice of the National Public Health Emergency Team to combat COVID-19.
Irish citizens who are abroad, or who intend to travel abroad in the near future and have concerns about COVID-19 (Coronavirus), can ring the Department of Foreign Affairs' dedicated phone line: +353 1 6131733.