Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced that Israel, as well as Albania and St Lucia, will no longer be designated states under the system of mandatory hotel quarantine.
People who have arrived from those countries in recent days can leave their hotels and quarantine at home. In a statement last night, Mr Donnelly said that because of the "substantially improved" epidemiological situation in these countries, arrangements had been made "on an exceptional basis" for the small number of people who had arrived from these states in recent days and had not been in any other designated state in the 14 days before they arrived, to leave mandatory hotel quarantine as soon as they wished.