No Covid test needed for hauliers on direct maritime route from Ireland to France 

The Department of Transport has said just 14 cases have been identified from the 5,743 anti-gen tests carried out by RocDoc at Irish ports-– a positivity rate of 0.24%.

Lorry driver George Mc Glashan from Dungannon Northern Ireland being swabbed at the RocDoc Dublin Airport facility for Covid-19. Picture: Maxwell's

Hauliers travelling on direct maritime routes from Ireland to France are no longer required to produce a negative test result for Covid-19. 

Introduced by the French government in January to prevent the spread of the new UK variant of the coronavirus, feared for its increased transmissibility, hauliers had been required to produce evidence of a negative Covid-19 test taken within the previous 72 hours on arrival in French ports.