Q&A: Mandatory hotel quarantine starts this week. But how does it work?

People whose journeys originate in any country designated as a Covid hotspot or of being the site of a large proportion of a variant of concern of Covid-19 will have to book themselves into a designated facility. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

From 4am on this Friday, mandatory hotel quarantine will come into effect, nearly two months after the plan was announced by the Government.

The two-week stay at a designated facility was signed into law by President Michael D Higgins two weeks ago, with more than 34,400 people having arrived in Ireland in the three-week period since Cabinet signed off on the plan, with about 1,200 coming from Covid hotspots.