First group of passengers arrives for Ireland’s hotel quarantine

A traveller enters the Crowne Plaza hotel, Santry, near Dublin Airport, where he will stay during a mandatory 12-day quarantine after arriving from one of 33 high risk countries.Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

The first group of people to face mandatory hotel quarantine in Ireland has arrived at the designated facility.

Around 20 passengers arriving into Dublin Airport on Friday were transferred by bus to the first quarantine centre at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry.