Q&A: What extending the hotel quarantine list means for you

A traveller enters the Crowne Plaza hotel, Santry, near Dublin Airport, where he will stay for mandatory quarantine. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

France, Italy, the US, and Canada are among 16 countries that were last night added to the hotel quarantining list by the Government.

The addition will mean that anyone coming from or having transited through the countries in the previous 14 days will have to undergo a stay in a state-designated facility at their own cost.