Public health will be in touch with you to arrange your test if you were identified as close contact. You have to stay at home (restrict your movements) for up to 14 days (depending on your vaccination status) since your last contact with the confirmed case, regardless of test result.
More detals here (click).
Close contact is defined as somebody who spent
- more than 15 minutes
- in distance smaller than 2m
- with a confrmed case.
- Either 48h prior symptoms started
- or 24h prior positive swab result if the confirmed case was asymptomatic
Current advice also on HSE website – here