NZ and Australia experience gives early warning of quarantine pitfallsSome of the Antipodean quarantine hotels featured problems with poor organisation and unruly guests in the initial stages, which the government here will hope to avoid when it implements a similar strategy very soon
Analysis: Taoiseach rules out mandatory bedroom quarantine due to legal issuesA law requiring people to stay in their bedrooms would be impossible to police, Micheál Martin tells the Dáil, but opposition says hotel quarantine is the solution
Analysis: Why the Government is reluctant to impose 14-day quarantine Politicians doubt Ireland’s ability to function as an island economy and have stopped short of Australia-style travel restrictions, for now
Number of Covid-19 cases caused by foreign travel is likely far higher than Government claimsWay in which new infections are counted could lead to a considerable under-reporting of imported cases
Analysis: Cabinet stops short of mandatory quarantine for allWhile anyone arriving from South Africa or Brazil or without a negative Covid test will be subject to a 14-day hotel quarantine, a softer system will be applied to everyone else