The Green List remains unchanged with only four countries on the list

THE GREEN LIST of travel precautions has remained unchanged today after undergoing a weekly review.

No country has been added or removed from the list, leaving Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Liechtenstein as the four countries in place.

People traveling from any of those four countries to Ireland are not required to restrict their movements after entering Ireland.

On the other hand, there are restrictions for travelers arriving from Ireland in all four countries.

Arrivals to Liechtenstein from Ireland must be quarantined for 10 days and report their arrival to the authorities.

In Cyprus, visitors to Ireland must be tested for Covid-19 within 72 hours before flying into the country and have received a negative result.

Arrivals to Finland from Ireland are advised to self-isolate for 14 days, and those traveling to Latvia must self-isolate for 10 days after arrival and submit a questionnaire to their carrier before entering the country.

The list was last updated on September 24, when Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Iceland were removed and Liechtenstein was added.

The Green List Travel Advisory allows people to travel from certain countries to Ireland without having to restrict their movements upon arrival in Ireland.

However, people living in Dublin and Donegal are currently not allowed to travel abroad except for essential reasons while the counties are under Level 3 Restrictions.

Under the government restriction framework, inter-county domestic travel and overseas travel are only allowed for essential reasons in Tier 3 counties.

The government agreed to update the Green List weekly starting in mid-September.

However, the list is likely to be removed in the coming months as the EU seeks to introduce an EU-wide traffic light system to travel around Europe.

The policy, to be agreed by the EU Council of Ministers on October 15, would use a traffic light system to mark countries as green, orange or red, depending on their rate of Covid-19 cases.

Countries with a 14-day incidence of less than 25 per 100,000 and a positive test rate of less than 3% will be considered green.

Orange countries will have an incidence of less than 50 cases per 100,000, and countries will be considered red if there are more than 50 cases per 100,000.

In Ireland, the 14-day national incidence rate is 92.06 per 100,000 as of September 30, having tripled since September 1, when it was 33.12 per 100,000.

Ryanair has threatened to close its bases in Cork and Shannon for the winter if Ireland does not adopt EU travel regulations and allow the Irish to travel to green and orange countries.

The company said it will close its bases in Cork and Shannon on October 13 until next April unless the government fully adopts the regulations and allows “unrestricted air travel to / from those regions of Europe that are green or amber.”