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HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE identified a further 6,521 cases of Covid-19 in this country, with 10 deaths also confirmed.
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has said there have now been 127,657 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic with a total of 2,307 deaths.
The latest figures come on the back of 7,836 cases being confirmed yesterday and virus hospitalisations now topping 1,000 people.
Of the cases notified today:
As of 2pm today, 1,043 patients are hospitalised, of which 96 are in ICU. There have been 99 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
The briefing heard that positivity rates have been climbing since November but have now been stable, yet “exceptionally high” for the last week, Dr Tony Holohan said.
He said that there has been a high incidence rate across all age groups but over 33% are over 45 with a significant portion of those over 65. Professor Philip Nolan added that the reproduction rate for the disease now stands between 2.4-3.
Nolan said that he hoped, by looking at the data, that cases could plateau around 6,000 and then start to reduce.
He said: “On the pessimistic side, we could see case numbers plateauing in five six days time and about 8,500 cases per day and declining slowly to somewhere between 2,500 and 2,000 per day by the end of January – that’s a pessimistic projection.
“A more optimistic projection suggests that we are starting to plateau now at five to 6,000 cases per day on average case numbers could decline. By the end of January, we’ll have a lot more detail on that and more specific projections, a week from now, where we can understand what the impact of the measures between Christmas and now have been.”
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said earlier today that the Government is
considering banning the sale of alcohol after a certain time of day, the Tánaiste has said.
Leo Varadkar also said the government is working on new public health regulations to strengthen the law around drinking alcohol in public streets to give gardai more powers of enforcement.
Holohan echoed the Tánasite’s sentiments and added that “the virus loves alcohol”.
“I’ve said a number of occasions before this virus loves alcohol. That is a concern for us, and the way in which we have consumed and our pattern of use of alcohol in this country has been a challenge.
“We’re continuing to stress, given the numbers that we’re dealing with here, given the potential role that’s being played by the variants that have been reported, and the increasing role that we think may be played by that we have to do everything we can to try to suppress, and that includes measures in relation to alcohol.”
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Do you know. The Trump circus will seem normal when Kanye and the Kardashian c.unts get a hold of the Whitehouse
@Charles Murr: I can believe that will happen after this
@Charles Murr: This is the most terrifying thing I’ve read in a while and I’m currently reading a book about a survivor of Auschwitz.
@Rob Cahill: Sorry about that.. didn’t mean to put you on a downer… There’s just something inevitable about it !
@Charles Murr: Although it is funny that either woman would refer to herself as a lady. As awful as Trump is he has never refered to himself as a gentleman. Laughing.
@Charles Murr: why do we continue to make stupid people famous?
@Gillian Weir Scully: what i find interesting is that Melania is the one who appears to carry the dignity of her role or is that too much botox ?
@john g mcgrath: ‘instant’ culture John, we celebrate absurd/extreme at home and abroad, Mainstream media are dis-interested in reasoned thought/ debate, rationality. Much more ‘fun’ to promote vacuousness. Anyway enough of that, back to my podium with my tassles and pasties…
Melania is a big league upgrade from Ivana. Five Stars Mr President, well done.
@Tristan Rowntree: That’s a disgusting way to talk about women.
@Harry Bookless: oh get a grip, it’s a compliment.
@Tristan Rowntree: it was at least equal parts insult
@Tristan Rowntree: Get a grip of yourself……….. https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/melania_-_copie_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&strip=all
@Karen Wellington: do you deny Melania is younger and more attractive than Ivana?
@Tristan Rowntree: I’ll concede that she’s younger, as I understand it; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just out of interest how does congratulating Trump on upgrading (like a phone?) his wife translate as a compliment to either woman?
@neilo: are you a Catholic church pearl clutching prude?
@Karen Wellington: it’s clearly a compliment both are attractive women, Melania is more so now with youth on her side but bring Ivanka or Tiffany into the picture and it all changes.
@Tristan Rowntree: your original comment really isn’t a compliment to either woman, it definitely isn’t a compliment to Ivana. If you have to tear one woman down to build another one up you’re not complimenting either of them.
@Karen Wellington: Have you got nothing better to do? Give the shrill feminist whinging a rest once in a while.
@Martan O Conghaile: Its not feminist at all Martan , its about a a bit of respect ,persoanlly i dont like either woman ,both are clearly goldiggers and generally poor female role models but hey .., and yes I can see clearly see that Melania is younger and more attractive than Ivanka now, but Tristan does denigrate them both to commodity level by referring to upgrade , i know it was incredibly witty and funny that you think that everyone is being snowflake sensitive for not laughing and saying yeah look the fat rich organge p8ssy grabber kicked the old one to the curb , but lets hope your missus or girlfrind dosent see fit to upgrade you or maybe you are so good looking any wealthy that you are not an upgradadable commodity ? not that it would bother an alpha male who chops wood before breakfast and rides a few birds before tea.Now let your partner now that your only a lotto win away from telling her to pack her bags :-)
@Martan O Conghaile: so sorry for not reducing two people to a (subjective) assessment of their personal appearances, and what an idiot I am for not adjusting Ivana’s value to reflect ageing. Of course you’re right; it is the sole prerogative of feminists to evaluate a person based on their words and deeds rather than their genetics.
A cat fight over the Donald and not for the first time!
@Tristan Rowntree: It’s those soft wavy locks that does it
@A H: or his abnormally well endowed hands.
@Tristan Rowntree: only cats would fight over Donald.
Trash without the Trailer
Melania took the bait here and probably helped Ivana sell a few books with her response
’47 and normally very reserved’….. wow, just wow
In her divorce affidavit (the kind of document you go to jail if you lie in) she claimed Trump came home angry one night and raped her.
@Peter King: “The divorce came under scrutiny during the 2016 election, when it was reported that Ivana once signed a sworn deposition alleging Donald had raped her. She sought to clarify that the accusation, which Trump has consistently denied, was not intended in a “literal or criminal sense”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/ivana-trump-donald-relationship-ivanka-president
@Tristan Rowntree: Needed that. Thank you. :-)
@Tristan Rowntree: You do like to keep the juicy bits out of your many ‘stories’…one might say that you even take a ‘scalp’ off them…
Ivana Humpalot….
Ivana needs to create publicity to sell her book but it must seem embarrassing for the kids trying to get on with their lives and keep on the right side of their dads potential inheritance.
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