Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 June 2021
575. Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Health if he has considered allowing those vaccinated with WHO approved Covid-19 vaccines as well as EMA approved vaccines to be exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine and quarantine at home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25676/21]
View answerPersons who are fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine and have the documents confirming this do not have to complete mandatory hotel quarantine on arrival in Ireland. Any dependents travelling with such persons, including children, will also be exempted from the requirement to complete mandatory hotel quarantine.
The current policy is to accept vaccines that have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) only. This policy is kept under review in relation to further developments at a European level.
Fully vaccinated for the purpose of Mandatory Hotel Quarantine means:
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A full course of any one of the following vaccines |
Regarded as fully vaccinated after |
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2 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech Vaccine: BNT162b2 (Comirnaty®) |
7 days |
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2 doses of Moderna Vaccine: CX-024414 (Moderna®) |
14 days |
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2 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine: ChAdOx1-SARS-COV-2 (Vaxzevria® or Covishield) |
15 days |
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1 dose of Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Vaccine: Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant] (Janssen®) |
14 days |
