Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 September 2021
778. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove the necessity to undertake a hotel quarantine upon arrival in Ireland for Irish citizens living in Argentina that have been fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46578/21]
View answerPersons arriving in Ireland who are fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine are not required to undergo Quarantine in a Designated Facility, however may be subject to a home quarantine and other testing requirements depending on where they are arriving from.
To be fully vaccinated, a person must have waited the correct length of time after the final dose of an EMA-approved vaccine.
The table below sets out what fully vaccinated 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 |
Travellers coming from a designated state who have not been vaccinated as outlined in the table above do not meet Ireland’s meaning of fully vaccinated and must pre-book and enter mandatory hotel quarantine.
