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A new approach to air travel in Europe has been launched.
As part of the European Union’s traffic light system, countries and regions within those countries will be classified as green, orange, or red, based on Covid-19 risk levels.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control will publish a weekly map determined by the 14-day incidence and positivity rates for the disease.
People arriving in Ireland from the red regions must restrict their movements for two weeks.
Passengers from orange regions can avoid restriction, if they have a negative coronavirus test result taken no earlier than three days before departure.
Travelers from green regions can enter the State without restricting their movements or undergoing a test.
Currently, only Greenland is in the green category, with Norway, Finland, and parts of Greece in orange, while all other areas are red.
Anyone arriving from Denmark must restrict their movements for two weeks, regardless of the traffic light classification, due to concerns about the new strain of Covid in mink that has spread to humans.
Under the new system, passengers traveling with certain essential functions do not have to restrict their movements.
This includes essential workers, travel for imperative business or family reasons (for example, attending a funeral), and essential medical reasons for travel.
The government has also said that a mechanism should be in place in December whereby people coming from the red regions can be screened here after five days.
And with Ireland at level 5, the current advice remains that there should be no non-essential international travel.
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