Only five passenger locator forms used for contact tracing since August

Cork Airport terminal building public entrance/exit. Picture: Larry Cummins

Irish contact tracers working to track close contacts of confirmed cases of Covid-19 from flights coming into Ireland have accessed Passenger Locator Forms (PLFs) on just five occasions since August, according to the Department of Health. 

In that time roughly 500,000 of the mandatory forms for passengers inbound on planes and ferries had been filled out, meaning that the data contained on the locator forms was used for contact tracing in just 0.001% of cases.