France, Italy, US, and Canada among 16 countries to be added to hotel quarantine list

A traveller enters the Crowne Plaza hotel, Santry, near Dublin Airport, where she will stay during a mandatory 12-day quarantine. Picture: PA

France, Italy, the US, and Canada are among 16 countries being added to the hotel quarantining list by the Government tonight. 

Home quarantining is also to be strengthened, which means a person entering the country with a negative PCR test will also have to book their five-day test before arrival.