Ireland on Tuesday said that from Saturday all arriving travellers will have to show a negative coronavirus test because the country's infection rate is now the highest in the world.
In the first such blanket restriction, the Irish government said all travellers would need to show a negative test result from within the past 72 hours.
This now applies to travellers only from the UK and South Africa, where new highly infectious strains were detected.
Travellers from those countries will still have to quarantine for 14 days on arrival, even after showing a negative test result.
Ireland, a country of five million, in December had the lowest infection rate in the EU but the number of cases has soared since restrictions were greatly eased over the festive period.
The number of confirmed cases rose from just over 93,000 on January 1 to more than 150,000 on Monday.
The number of cases for every million of population is 1,288, the highest in the world, University of Oxford data shows.
On Tuesday, Switzerland announced a quarantine on Irish travellers as World Health Organisation emergencies director Michael Ryan said the nation had "one of the most acute increases in disease incidence of any country".
Other ways to buy used products in the UAE
UAE insurance firm Al Wathba National Insurance Company (AWNIC) last year launched an e-commerce website with a facility enabling users to buy car wrecks.
Bidders and potential buyers register on the online salvage car auction portal to view vehicles, review condition reports, or arrange physical surveys, and then start bidding for motors they plan to restore or harvest for parts.
Physical salvage car auctions are a common method for insurers around the world to move on heavily damaged vehicles, but AWNIC is one of the few UAE insurers to offer such services online.
For cars and less sizeable items such as bicycles and furniture, Dubizzle is arguably the best-known marketplace for pre-loved.
Founded in 2005, in recent years it has been joined by a plethora of Facebook community pages for shifting used goods, including Abu Dhabi Marketplace, Flea Market UAE and Arabian Ranches Souq Market while sites such as The Luxury Closet and Riot deal largely in second-hand fashion.
At the high-end of the pre-used spectrum, resellers such as Timepiece360.ae, WatchBox Middle East and Watches Market Dubai deal in authenticated second-hand luxury timepieces from brands such as Rolex, Hublot and Tag Heuer, with a warranty.
