Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan advised the Cabinet to add other European countries with high Covid-19 incidence rates to the mandatory hotel quarantine list.
But the Government is only adding European countries reporting variants of concern to that list, even if other countries have higher case numbers, said Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.
The Government is designating European countries only based on variants of concern, he said, not on their case numbers. Speaking on RTÉ's Prime Time, he said non-European countries are being designated both on the basis of variants of concern and high incidence rates.
The minister said it is true that the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, advised adding other European countries that had