And how many of today’s 18,447 daily confirmed cases do you think were “imported” and how many were caught at schools, hospitals or the supermarket? As had been mentioned so many times in this thread, the virus is active in 200+ countries across the world. Somebody traveling from the UK to Ireland is somebody traveling from a place with COVID to a place with COVID. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to visit loved ones in a different country but people can visit loved ones in the same country?
A quick google search find reports from February, March, June and last week that state travel restrictions and quarantines are almost entirely pointless if a country already has community transmission of COVID.