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Dept preparing options to restrict non-essential travel

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The Minister for Health has said his Department is preparing options for Government on how to restrict non-essential travel from countries outside the European Union and UK that have high rates of Covid-19.

In a tweet this morning, Minister Stephen Donnelly said he was concerned about high rates of the disease in some places and he said the options would be finalised "as soon as possible".

Mr Donnelly said travel-related cases remained small but the risk was increasing. Once his department had finalised the proposals they would be presented to Government for discussion, he said.

Speaking on Friday evening, when an announcement was made that restrictions were being reintroduced for three counties due to a spike in Covid-19 cases, Mr

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