Dr. Tony Holohan:

Generally, it will be the case that travelling to other countries as a population, even for those of us who are vaccinated, will lead to opportunities for transmission. Hopefully, we will make progress here in driving down the level of infection further. It may well be the case that we will be enabled to travel to countries with higher levels of incidence of the virus and, if so, the basic public health messages that we will now be emphasising for the entire population will be relevant to people travelling internationally. Travelling to other countries does not mean that people can go on holidays from all the protections they maintain at home. When abroad, people must keep up their hand hygiene, continue to react to symptoms in keeping with the basic public health messages in that regard and maintain the basic practices of keeping out of indoor environments that they think might be risky, etc. All those personal protective behaviours that we think of as being important here at home will also be important when people are travelling.