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[38] [39] [40] On 27 March, the first stay-at-home order banned all non-essential travel and contact with others. [41] It was the longest in Europe, especially for hospitality and retail. [42] On 15 September 2020, the Government of Ireland announced a medium-term plan for living with COVID-19 that included five levels of restrictions. [43]
On 26 January, the Government announced the extension of the Level 5 lockdown restrictions until 5 March, along with a number of new measures including a mandatory 14-day quarantine period for all people travelling into the country without a negative COVID-19 test, including all arrivals from Brazil and South Africa.
Contact tracing involved identifying people who have been exposed to (or "came into close contact with") an infected person. Public health workers then isolated the known infected person and attempted to locate all of those exposed persons, and quarantine them until they either were unlikely to be infectious or received several negative tests.
As of Friday, passengers arriving into Ireland from 33 countries flagged as high risk must quarantine for 12 nights.
As of March 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer advises a five-day isolation period when you test positive for COVID-19, but recommends taking other precautions once ...
This means staying home if you test positive for the virus—though isolation guidelines have changed quite a bit since SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes illness with Covid-19, first emerged.
16 April – Northern Ireland's hotel quarantine rules come into effect, requiring passengers arriving from "red list" countries to go into quarantine. [151] 18 April – Northern Ireland records another day with no further COVID related deaths. [152] 19 April – Vaccination appointments are made available to a limited number of adults aged 35 ...
Scotland and Northern Ireland contact tracing apps were launched in the weeks prior to England & Wales. [ 203 ] [ 204 ] To aid contract tracing, the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales [ 205 ] allows users to scan official NHS QR code posters at businesses, venues and transport hubs. [ 206 ]