TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS – JUNE 2021
You should not travel to Ireland unless you have an essential reason for your travel.
Mandatory hotel quarantining has been introduced for some travellers arriving into Ireland to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Who has to quarantine in a hotel?
You must quarantine in a hotel if you arrive into Ireland:
- From a country on the ‘designated country’ list – see list below
- From any country if you do not have a negative or not detected PCR test taken within 72 hours
You also have to quarantine in a hotel if you transited through a designated country in the 14 days before your arrival, even if you did not leave the port or airport.
Other people travelling into Ireland need to quarantine in their home or place of residence while in Ireland
| AFRICA | Angola Botswana Burundi Cape Verde Democratic Republic of the Congo Eswatini Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Seychelles Somalia South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda (as of 4:00am Wednesday, 16 June) Zambia Zimbabwe |
| ASIA | Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh India Maldives Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates |
| EUROPE | Turkey |
| SOUTH AMERICA | Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela |
| NORTH AMERICA | Canada Costa Rica Panama |
You must quarantine for 14 days at a designated facility – generally called a quarantine hotel. This period can be extended if you test positive and are still symptomatic at the end of the 14-day period. You may leave after 10 days if you get a negative PCR test. You will get a letter of completion at the end of your quarantine period.
If you come to Ireland without a negative or not detected PCR test, you must complete mandatory quarantine in a hotel until a not detected result from a COVID-19 PCR test is returned.
You are then free to leave the mandatory hotel quarantine facility.
Summary of quarantine measures if you are travelling to Ireland:
| If I am? | Where do I need to quarantine? |
| Travelling from a designated country | You must quarantine in a designated hotel. You may leave after 10 days if you get a negative or not detected RT- PCR test. |
| Arriving into Ireland without a negative or ‘not detected’ RT-PCR test | You must quarantine in a designated hotel. You may leave once you get negative or not detected RT- PCR test. You must then follow same rules as a person if arriving from any country not on the designated list (see box below) and quarantine at home for either 14 days or until you have a negative or not-detected result from a RT-PCR test taken 5 days after arrival. |
| Arriving into Ireland from any other country (not on designated country list) | You must quarantine at home or in your place of residence. You may stop quarantining after 5 days if you get a negative or not-detected RT-PCR test. |
| Fully vaccinated | You must quarantine at home or in your place of residence. You may stop quarantining after 5 days if you get a negative or not-detected RT-PCR test. |
[For further information, visit: Citizens Information > Travel & Recreation > Travel to Ireland]
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