Calls for 'Zero Covid' strategy increase as CMO admits 40% of incoming cases are missed

Some 2,332 people entered Ireland from previously banned countries, the UK and South Africa, in the three days after that ban was lifted on January 8.

Ireland needs to employ a "zero Covid" strategy as it “has nothing to lose” by doing so, while current measures will simply lead to more lockdowns, a leading academic has said.

With positive cases of Covid-19 remaining stubbornly high, the number of travellers coming into Ireland has once more come centre stage, with Tánaiste Leo Varadkar describing mandatory quarantine for incoming passengers as being “unworkable”.