The Irish government is set to agree on how to implement the new EU traffic-light travel system today (October 20).
The new system is designed to cut the need for quarantine.
Last week, EU foreign ministers agreed that the bloc should adopt the new approach.
According to reports, the Cabinet could decide to remove quarantine measures for those travelling to Ireland for essential business or family reasons.
Airlines are in favour of the new traffic light system, which will allow fo somewhat free movement for those travelling from green and orange areas.
Tests would replace quarantine for those from designated red regions.
Only parts of Germany, Italy and eastern Europe have low enough Covid rates to qualify as ‘green’, which requires 14-day infection levels of 25 or fewer people in every 100,000, or 50/100,000 where positive test results are below 4%.
