Niner leprauchan wrote: » That appears to relate to other covid restrictions such as gatherings and events and not travel
Hontou wrote: » I have flights booked for the night of the 5th of July. I wonder would they fine us in the last hours? These are Ryanair flights that I changed 3 times since March 2020. I think I just lose the money if I try to change them again. I don't even want a refund. I want to live in a country that has viable airlines and support them.....unlike the government. And I want t be part of the EU............not some outstation dictatorship. (Sorry, Siochain for the moaning).
siochain wrote: » Folks this has the potential to be a really useful thread but having to wade through the moaning and back-biting is painful. Any chance we can keep it to questions, facts and official updates?
Dr. Em wrote: » Has anyone else posted the new government press release on travel? https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/75d92-covid-19-travel-advice/ (Link at top of page.) Apologies if it has already been discussed.
Valhallapt wrote: » How did you get on in Belfast, I am booked to go 28th June to Faro via Dublin, but really thinking of switching to Belfast now.
Marcusm wrote: » ... The one beside me also only has 4 days as he has to be back to play for UCD in the “Irish league”. In the old days you’d have been shot for saying that rather than “League of Ireland”, like saying Irish FA instead of FAI.
ninebeanrows wrote: » Do we know if 1 dose of vaccine is acceptable for the cert?
yoshimitsu wrote: » For some countries in the EU it is. E.g. Italy accepts the 'vaccinated' status of the Digital Covid Certificate 2 weeks after the 1st dose has been administered. So I imagine the DCC will be issued to anybody who requests it regardless of vaccination/immunization/testing status. If you only have had 1 jab that'll be recorded and that may be enough to get you into some countries without furthers tests/quarantine etc. When coming back to Ireland you'll have to get a PCR test locally (also to be recorded on your DCC) as Ireland only considers you fully vaxxed after the 2nd dose. It would be nice to get more homogeneous treatment across the EU but ultimately I think this is a reasonable arrangement to open up travel this summer. Hopefully we wont hit any IT snags and everybody who needs a DCC will be given one before July 19th.
Proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in German, English, French, Italian or Spanish in digital or paper form (e.g. WHO vaccination booklet). The vaccine used must be one of those listed on the website of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. A period of at least 14 days must have elapsed since receiving the last vaccine dose.
Marine Layer wrote: » Isn't the document issued to residents of your own country Ireland won't be giving fully vaccinated status for one shot unless you have had the jaansen
yoshimitsu wrote: » yes my point being that you can enter Italy without any additional test/quarantine requirement with your DCC issued by Ireland even if you have only 1 shot done. so it doesnt matter if Ireland considers you fully vaccinated or not, what matters is that your first dose is recorded on your DCC (and you've been issues one obviously) before you leave
Marine Layer wrote: » I wouldn't like to be relying on that! We haven't seen the Irish DCC yet It wouldn't surprise me if it's not issued untill the department say you are fully vaccinated It also wouldn't surprise me if the QR code you get after a pcr test contains no vaccine information if not fully vaccinated This is Ireland
from Google translate At the request of the House of Representatives, the cabinet is making an effort to fully reimburse the costs of corona tests for travelers departing from the Netherlands abroad in the months of July and August. The compensation is intended for people who are not (fully) vaccinated and who will be tested this summer prior to their trip in order to obtain a European digital Covid certificate. With this certificate it is possible to travel within Europe. The government does warn that implementation also carries serious risks. The plan to reimburse the test costs for travelers will be further elaborated as soon as possible. The government informed the House of Representatives today that due to the short timeframe and the complex feasibility, it cannot be ruled out that, according to current insights, the implementation of the House's request will entail irregularities and fraud risks. The cabinet will of course do everything it can to control these as well as possible, but unfortunately the cabinet cannot rule this out. The government estimates that the cost of testing departing travelers for free could amount to around 350 million euros. The costs for a test for returning travelers to the Netherlands are not reimbursed by the government.
yoshimitsu wrote: » ... This is a key feature of the DCC so there's no reason why we shouldnt expect everyone who needs it to travel to get one, regardless of vaccination status. ...
yoshimitsu wrote: » We havent seen any DCC, Irish or otherwise, because it hasnt been issued yet. Italy for example is accepting paper-based version at the moment for citizens to participate in weddings, sport events, conferences etc. All that will be replaced by the DCC on July 1st, at least this is the plan the Italian government has presented (subject to overly complicated bureaucracy and old/ineffective IT systems!). It is only my opinion but as I've stated in my original post, given that the DCC is also used to prove you have done a test in the previous 48/72h and are negative, you should be getting one regardless of your vaccination status. I'd imagine that you show your DCC QR code at Randox (or any other testing facility), they scan that code and your test results will be recorded on there when issued. This is a key feature of the DCC so there's no reason why we shouldnt expect everyone who needs it to travel to get one, regardless of vaccination status. Then the HSE may decide to record on the DCC your 1st jab brand/date when administered, the 2nd jab brand/date or only record it once they consider you fully vaxxed, that's their prerogative and unfortunately I have no way of telling you what they'll do. It would make sense for them to update the DCC as you get your doses done but I dont know how the various IT systems will be linked up and what kind of delays/issues there might be.
josip wrote: » You want everyone who travels to take an expensive PCR test, even if they're fully vaccinated, just because a software application facilitates it? Sorry, I must have misunderstood something in your post.
IQO wrote: » https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/06/02/kabinet-spant-zich-in-voor-vergoeding-van-coronatest-voor-reizigers-naar-het-buitenland-in-juli-en-augustus Interesting, the Dutch government is exploring options to cover the PCR testing costs for outgoing travelers from The Netherlands in July/August, mainly for the people who aren't vaccinated by then. The scheme could cost up to 350 million euro. Such a different mindset compared to the Irish government. If all EU passport holders are able to use this service when flying from The Netherlands, this could create a cost-free travel bridge between Ireland and The Netherlands. No tests are now necessary when traveling from Ireland to The Netherlands, while then on the way back your PCR test costs would be covered by the Dutch government.
Its highly unlikely that every single covid testing provider in Ireland (or in other countries in Europe) will have its tech systems fully linked up to national/EU app verification in that way. We're talking 20+ providers in Ireland at the moment alone, some of them quite small medical operations.
Theres also the question of people who've been tested outside of their home country. What if someone is traveling through Dublin airport but got tested by a Northern Irish provider? Or the same question but a French person traveling through Amsterdam airport? You're then talking of needing international test providers (in the hundreds, or thousands) fully integrated into the app.
Its far more likely that you will just have to upload a screenshot of your test results, from wherever, directly to the app for them to then be verified by AI. Basically the same as immigration officers are currently doing manually in airports.
The same process as I would expect for vaccination verification, incidentally. There are huge numbers of people getting vaccinated in countries other than their home country these days - Irish people in the US/UK in particular for us. Theres no way for the HSE to automatically verify these people to an app.
Red Silurian wrote: » So how are people feeling about the Indian Variant being in Ireland now. Seems the PCR 3 days before arriving did nothing for us in that regard
yoshimitsu wrote: » Fair enough, I dont hold high hopes for Ireland, Italy and Spain (the 3 countries involved in my travelling this summer) to have everything sorted out by mid-July. my scenarios was more to justify the point of releasing the DCC regardless of your vaccination as it is a tool to record your testing status. I dont think it's impossible that a couple of the larger testing providers, like Randox and RocDoc, who operate from the airport and will likely see the bulk of testing volumes (particularly if anigen gains broader acceptance as you would do this right before flying) to be linked in to the DCC systems but agree that this is science fiction at the moment given the other IT mess the HSE is dealing with atm Agree, there are many situations in which you'll just show the proof of negative test rather than the DCC but that shouldnt prevent you receiving a DCC when it's issued, regardless of your vaccination status. so that may also include a 1st jab status which is sufficient to enter certain EU countries without additional requirements If you doubt IT systems being ready handle all this in July, I doubt AI will be the solution... but happy to be proven wrong here Yes expect these people to have to rely on some kind of paper document in the interim, if accepted by the country you're trying to visit.
Flyer1 wrote: » Meh, it and all subsequent variants will find there way in here regardless of what measures we take to curtail travel. Time to accept it all now and move on
yoshimitsu wrote: » that's because you're assuming that somebody on a flight direct to ireland brought it in... it could (probably is) one of the following: - came through N. Ireland - came with one of the 100-200 lorries drivers that come in daily and are neither subject to testing nor quarantine requirement of any kind
Blut2 wrote: » Its not possible to limit the number of test providers to only those at airports, though. Significant numbers of people travel from hours away to fly out of Dublin airport (or any large continental one). Its not practical to require them to travel to the airport 24+ hours beforehand to do a PCR test and wait for the result. You need to have a network of test providers countrywide, as we currently have. Which then leads to the issue of having thousands of test providers all across Europe. One of the main goals of the travel pass is to reduce the time spent at airports on document checks, because its not possible to have anywhere near normal airport traffic with the new required document checks without massive, hours long, immigration queues forming - see Heathrow in recent times for example. So its very unlikely vaccinated people will be forced to rely on paper certs instead of simply uploading photos of them to the app, if thats how PCR test results are being verified anyway. AI for document checking already exists, and is in very common usage. Thats not a technical issue at all. A similar example would be online companies that need to verify photo ID for Know Your Customer requirements. Basically - if in doubt, the easiest solution is the one that will be used. Which in this case is very much simple AI verification of uploaded vaccination/testing results that spits out a QR code to match your details for instant scanning at the airport. Not a continent wide, fully integrated, medical data system, across thousands of providers.
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