Ireland wants to 'align' with the plans but may take some time to be fully on board
The EU wants its citizens to be travelling again. Image: PA Images The EU wants its citizens to be travelling again. Image: PA Images IRELAND’S GREEN LIST becoming empty from Monday has put even more attention on the EU’s proposed traffic light system for travel.
Potential problems likely to slow the adoption of the system include airport testing, securing the buy-in of health authorities and making sure the UK is also on board. The countries involved in the agreement will have the option of whether to adopt it or not, with the likelihood being that some may sign up to parts of it now and others at a later date.
Crucially, passengers coming from Red countries would be subject to Covid-19 testing prior to their departure or on arrival. It means that a testing regime is crucial to the full adoption of the traffic light system.Countries are to be categorised as either Green, Orange or Red based on data from the European Centre of Disease Control . Much like the Green List, it’s envisaged that the list would changed base on prevailing ECDC data.
She noted that a workable airport testing system must be “quick, cheap, available, and meets the public health threshold for accuracy, specificity and sensitivity”. If antigen tests are not deemed appropriate, the more common PCR tests are therefore likely the way forward.
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