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Dublin's Phil Lynott statue has disappeared. Again. But we know where he is this time

The well-known statue has been removed by Dublin City Council to facilitate the repaving of Harry Street.

The Phil Lynott statue which was unveiled on Friday in his memory,pictured in Harry St Dublin.20/8/2005 Photo:Leon Farrell Photocall Ireland Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

THE WELL-KNOWN statue of Thin Lizzy rocker Phil Lynott in Dublin city centre has disappeared from its moorings.

The statue, which has become something of a tourist fixture on Harry Street, just off Grafton Street, went missing late on Friday evening.

Since being unveiled by Lynott’s (who died in 1986) mother Philomena in 2005, the statue has been removed a number of times, mostly for repairs.

In fact, the bronze sculpture’s most recent disappearance was as recently as early this year, when it sustained damage after being hit by a truck. It was returned to its iconic station in late May.

So you might have expected it to remain in place for a little longer than the five months it has.

However, there is no need for concern – Dublin City Council confirmed to TheJournal.ie that Phil has been put ‘in storage’ for a few months to allow for the repaving of Harry Street.

“They’re about to start the repaving works,” a spokesperson told us.

“They probably took it away late at night so as not to upset pedestrians.”

The whole thing is part of the upgrade of the Grafton Street’s pedestrianisation.

So we can expect to see Phil back in town in due course?

“He’ll be back some time after Christmas we estimate,” the spokesperson said.

The statue has become a well-loved part of the furniture between Bruxelles and McDaids pubs, just off Dublin’s main shopping thoroughfare.

But it has suffered its fair share of indignities over its 12-year existence.

The statue’s guitar has been stolen at least once, while in May 2013 two men were arrested after pushing the statue over and seriously damaging its coat.

In September 2015, meanwhile, another motorist accidentally hit the sculpture, leaving Lynott with a broken bass guitar and several loose strings.

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    Mute Paul Keenan
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    Nov 22nd 2021, 6:32 AM

    Hardly surprising with 4500 cases a day, in nearly every profession the numbers would be like that. Teachers socialise etc like everyone else

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:14 AM

    @Paul Keenan: you sound like a NPHET briefing: “the fact that teachers are getting covid more since we removed contact tracing is co-incident in time”. But look, if teachers are like any other profession, then treat classrooms like any other workplace. Test. Trace. Mask. Ventilate. And, as soon as possible, vaccinate.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:45 AM

    @Mac Muinteoir: every other workplace has been sent home. Maybe you missed this piece of news.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 8:05 AM

    @2thFairy: well, no. If it’s necessary to attend the workplace in person, workers go in (like tooth fairies, I presume – at least you’ve got actual magic to protect you, and not just Norma Foley’s Magic Hand Sanitiser). But let’s not play “who’s a key worker” again. Let’s just make schools safer.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 9:14 AM

    @2thFairy: Only if you can do your job from home…… Maybe you missed that piece of news! Huge chunk of the workforce cant work from home and things are still open.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 11:18 AM

    @Mac Muinteoir: So it’s all the kids, this wave is all caused by the kids

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:12 PM

    @Paul Keenan: Germany have kids masked and regular antigen testing and are seeing a huge spike in infection, who do German teachers blame???

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:21 PM

    @Paul Keenan: and totally unrelated to being in Europe’s smallest most overcrowded classrooms with more than half our school going population wearing no masks and a government that’s given up on contract tracing among other dumbf’ery???

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:22 PM

    @Paul Keenan: nope. Our inept politicans and Depts.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:26 PM

    @Graham Manning: so what about Germany as per my last comment??

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:38 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: teachers are already vaccinated. Why would a parent vaccinate a 5 year old against a headache.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:45 PM

    @Mikey Richard: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/03/1051299050/covid-vaccine-kids-5-11

    This article does a good job of outlining the argument in favour of vaccination. Closer to home you could look at the situation in the UK, where well over 100 kids have now died from Covid. Bottom line is, the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:51 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: Teachers received full pay while at home while the rest of us had our pay reduced to pup payment, so they weren’t treated the same as everyone else, they were also moaning looking for vaccine priority over the elderly and sick even though they were off school for the summer, I’ve no sympathy for teachers, all we hear is how hard a teacher’s job is, well the fact is they would struggle to survive in the real working world, they survive in their protected civil service bubble quite well.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:39 PM

    @Disillusioned: not that is has anything to do with the current situation, but anyone who worked from home during lockdown(s) got paid; and no, in fact teachers didn’t want or ask for priority over elderly or vulnerable, only that government would follow WHO advice, and their own initial plan, and vaccinate key workers to protect key services. What teachers want now is our government to follow best international practice and put meaningful mitigations in place to protect education, to protect kids, and to protect the entire school community, including the families of school-going children. Why don’t you want that too?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:50 PM

    @Paul Keenan: ah yes of course. They can’t catch it in school!

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:05 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: you have just summed up what teachers are like with the words ” what teachers want now is” stamp your feet and throw all the toys out of the pram as usual, usual diversionary tactics it’s all about the children lol the sooner you get treated like the rest of us the better, many professions are working exceptionally hard in difficult situations but it’s all about the teachers how hard done by they are.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:23 PM

    @Disillusioned: you are arguing with a figment of your imagination. You don’t need me for that, so I’ll leave you to it.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:30 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: How magnanimous of you, I see your point it’s best to retreat when you come across people who don’t accept your bs. Lol

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 3:19 PM

    @Paul Keenan: whataboutery.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 3:20 PM

    @Disillusioned: yawn…teachers were working so of course they were paid. And how is teaching not the “real world”? What “real” job do you do?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 5:18 PM

    @Disillusioned: All we here is PUP receipients whingeing. Go and get a real job

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:59 PM

    @Disillusioned: I have worked as a teacher and I have also worked as long in the “real working world” and while I appreciate your concern…. I survived just fine

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:37 AM

    As a retired teacher I was horrified to hear that it is not mandatory for all teachers to be vaccinated. Is this part of the problem?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:51 AM

    @Dave Phelan: I’m horrified that 2 years on we still live like this and that vaccines aren’t mandatory.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:13 AM

    @Dave Phelan: these teachers not vaccinated?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:15 AM

    @Raymond Scott: what is your point? Are you asking if these teachers are or are not vaccinated?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:42 AM

    @Dave Phelan: @2thFairy: I’m horrified that so many people like you are actually promoting the idea of mandatory vaccination. Seriously lads, get a grip.

    We know the vaccine does not stop you from getting covid nor does it prevent you from spreading it to others. What purpose would mandatory vaccinations serve?

    What about when all the teachers are jabbed or fired? We move onto the kids next I suppose?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:44 AM

    @Raymond Scott: being vaccinated doesn’t stop someone contracting covid

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 11:12 AM

    @Bernard Mc Grath: that cant be right. It is a VACCIN. It stops transmission. Otherwise it isnt a vaccine.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:54 PM

    @Jim Smith: it stops them ending up clogging the ICU beds. Vaccinated people are highly unlikely to end up in hospital . The majority of patients in the hospitals are unvaccinated. I think you need to get a grip that this is a worldwide pandemic

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:37 PM

    @Dave Phelan: With that logic we should consider all health factors for teachers that are at risk of hospitalisation with Covid. Obese teachers, smokers, teachers with heart disease, diabetes, etc, should all find another profession. Sorry, it’s just too dangerous and we’ve really got to keep those beds free for the people that deserve them.

    Need I remind you that those who are ‘clogging the ICU beds’ as you put it, are real people. I doubt they would appreciate your comments. The fact is they have a right to healthcare, regardless of their vaccination status.

    Mandatory vaccination is just plain wrong, end of story.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:04 PM

    @Jim Smith: I think the bottom line is if all were vaxed who could be vaxed we wouldn’t be facing into another potential lockdown as we would have the ICU issue we have now.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:17 PM

    @Macca1986: wouldn’t

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:53 PM

    @Raymond Scott: vaccines don’t necessarily stop transmission. These vaccines are pretty bad at that in fact.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 5:23 PM

    @Dave Phelan: This country isn’t Austria

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:01 PM

    @Dave Phelan: Not at all.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:26 AM

    I presume the figure wouldn’t include children who were tested because of household transmission and nothing to do with the magical schools!!

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 9:17 AM

    @Niamh Brady: Id say alot of cases that were classified as “household transmission” originated in schools.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:53 PM

    @Paul Hedderman: yeh, it was brought in by the schools.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 11:15 AM

    Schools cant contain a breakout of lice, how are they meant to handle Covid, You have 30 kids contained in a small (sometimes unventilated room) and yet Norma Foley says “Schools are safe, but please dont send your kids to birthday parties”

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 6:42 AM

    So the union need to take a closer look at the numbers ie just over 1% of students (of schools who answered the survey) had covid between Nov 1st and 16th but 3.62% of teachers had taken days off for both Covid and non related covid. Maybe the need another lock down #workfatigue

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:27 AM

    @Premier Fitters: maybe. Or maybe you need to have another look at what the article says. 3.62% of teachers in the schools surveyed did not “take days off for both covid and non related covid”, whatever that means. 3.62% tested positive for covid. When you test positive for covid, you don’t “take days off”. You isolate.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:35 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: thank christ your not teaching our children. I did look at the numbers
    11,778 substitute days due to positive covid test taken by 605 teachers which equates to an average of 19.47 days off. So either other sick days are feeding into such a high absentee figure or some teachers are taking the P. Do the math!

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:21 PM

    @Premier Fitters: good lord man would you put down the shovel before you hit Wuhan. This was a survey about two issues: levels of covid infection, and the sub crisis. Nowhere does it say that all 11, 778 substitutable days were due to 605 teachers testing positive, and for good reason: they weren’t. Those 11, 778 days across 877 schools include all substitutable absences. Which renders your average, and your argument, meaningless.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 6:19 AM

    3%… Teacher’s are people too.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 8:30 AM

    Gauging by the number of messages my siblings with school-aged kids are getting about positives in classes, sounds like a fair bit of students are too.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 6:55 AM

    What is so strange about that ??? Are there seriously more people outside Leo that believe that the virus will make make decisions not to attack childeren?????

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:09 AM

    I’m sure if Tesco,Dunnes or SuperValu etc were surveyed similar results would be found

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:33 PM

    @Margaret Deacon: I’ve never seen hundreds of customers all on top of each other, no social distancing etc. in Tesco or any other supermarket! What I have seen is employees masked, behind Perspex & wearing gloves. Hardly comparable!!

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:12 PM

    @Margaret Deacon: a completely non-sensical comparison

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 3:23 PM

    @Margaret Deacon: and those locations are the exact same as classrooms. Can’t think of any differences at all.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 9:52 AM

    I wonder are these numbers replicated in the universities. With all the students living in cramped accommodation and socialising like everyone else will it be long before they go back to online lectures

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 11:49 AM

    Not to worry. Schools are safe……

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:31 AM

    Strange that the unions are told and parents

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:33 AM

    @Tim: and not the parents

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 8:09 AM

    @Tim: unions aren’t told. That’s why they carried out the survey.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:07 PM

    Lesson to all, the boy who cried wolf springs to mind. A very serious and genuine issue has come up and looking at the comments everyone is fatigued of the teachers unions making statements.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 5:24 PM

    @Sarah Lou: I see you’re ‘working from home’.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 5:58 PM

    @Sarah Lou: once there was a young shepherd who looked after a flock of sheep in a field beside a dark wood. The villagers built a fence around the field to keep out wolves. One day, the elders of the village decided to dismantle the fence. “There are no wolves in this field”, they said, “and we never liked this fence anyway. Spoils the view.” The boy cried, “there are wolves in the wood. If you take down the fence, they will come in the field”. The villagers laughed. “Wolves will come!” the boy shouted. The villagers ignored him and took the fence away. Soon, a wolf came and began eating the sheep. The boy cried out “wolf!”. Some of the elders were ashamed. “We should have listened to the shepherd,” they said. “No,” said Sarah Lou, “for lo, the boy did cry wolf, so there.” The End.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:41 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: oh sorry mac múinteoir have i missed something. Let me do a recap. March 2020 covid hit…. Schools closed until Sept 2020 (despite low summer numbers cos it was the school holiday) some teachers did online teaching, some didn’t want to be infront of the camera, some sent a note out to jumps in puddles…. Actual note recieved from the teacher of a local school. The unions are up in arms. Teachers expected to work from home and have their own kids, camera issues etc. Schools reopen. Teachers want other accommodations so many I don’t have the night to list. Schools close. Teachers don’t want to do remote teaching. Teachers don’t want to reopen schools…. Teachers don’t know what they want but teachers union headlines daily for weeks. Teachers now have a genuine issue….. Noone is listening. You can talk all day long about sheep and fields. This is the outcome of over a year of teachers union headlining. As for the other comment above yours noone knows where I am or am not working everyone just assumes they have it worse than the next!

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 9:04 PM

    @Sarah Lou: that’s a grand rant there, not remotely related to reality but if it makes you feel better, what harm.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 10:00 PM

    @Mac Muinteoir: mac múinteoir you comment on every single teacher article. Tell me what I’ve missed?! Look at all the comments. This is a really serious issue and noone is listening.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 12:26 PM

    Virgin Media News reported last week that 12000 teachers were out sick in October. 1500 of them had covid. Seems like they have an issue in general with sick leave. That’s from a teacher population of 70000.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:15 PM

    @David O’Connor: Or perhaps they were isolating after being considered a close contact of one of the thousands of infected students in their classrooms? Using your population of 70,000 that would mean 17% of teachers have been forced to isolate because of their close proximity to so many unvaccinated human beings, not to mention the thousands of them who actually contracted the virus. I wouldn’t imagine there are many professions with that kind of ratio.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:16 PM

    @John Drake – Amazon #1 Bestselling Author: or perhaps they weren’t

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:17 PM

    @John Drake – Amazon #1 Bestselling Author: they are not contact tracing in schools so none of them would be close contact of a student, just FYI.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:21 PM

    @David O’Connor: Indeed, which is why it’s always good to argue both sides instead of just coming out swinging with accusations based on ‘finger in the air’ assumptions.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 2:25 PM

    @Sarah Lou: That’s only assuming they don’t use common sense and protect the children in their care by doing the right thing.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 3:52 PM

    @David O’Connor: it seems like you have an issue in general with teachers, and it’s causing you to jump to conclusions. 1500 teachers tested positive, but how many more tested negative? Because each teacher that tested negative still had to isolate while waiting for their result. I don’t have access to all the data, but positivity rate in middle of last month was 10% and rising (currently over 15%), so 1500 positive would mean a total of 15,000 covid tests, and 15000 teachers out of school isolating. Given that the actual figure was only 12000, it seems safe to conclude that a) the positivity rate for teachers must be higher than for general population, and b) you’re 93.6% positive to be talking through your taobh thiar.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 3:54 PM

    @John Drake – Amazon #1 Bestselling Author: So 17% of teachers were absent from work in October. 2% with covid. If I ran a company and had 17% of staff out sick I’d be pretty worried.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 4:10 PM

    @David O’Connor: what if someone told you that there’s a global pandemic, and that while waiting for their test results your staff had to stay out? I mean, any decent human being would still worry for the health and safety of their employees, but at least you could rest easy that they weren’t a bunch of liars, right?

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 9:26 AM

    Herd immunity for schools.

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 7:44 AM

    So

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 1:13 PM

    Not really surprised…

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    Nov 22nd 2021, 6:47 PM

    Can you ascertain what % of Teachers were unvacinated? & other School Staff. What does Significant number mean? Primary, Secondary or ASSAs?

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