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LAST UPDATE | 14 May 2020
TODAY, THE NATIONAL Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) will brief the government on its advice on whether Phase One will be lifted on Monday.
On Friday, Cabinet ministers will then meet to discuss this advice, before the Taoiseach announces the detail of what is to happen from Monday.
Despite cautious warnings that the public should not get complacent, the key indicators of how countries are handling the crisis have offered hope: the reproduction number has fallen well below R1; ICU admissions are falling, and testing is being sped up (though it still isn’t where it should be).
Here are today’s main Covid-19 points:
Here are today’s international Covid-19 points:
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From the Worldmeters website.
Yesterday the number of active cases in the country stood at 4,600.
This morning it is down to 2,400, just over 10% of the total confirmed cases in the country since the pandemic was declared.
This is a stunning achievement by our nurses, doctors, other front line personnel and the country in general in getting the coronavirus under control and flattening the damned curve, yet for some reason it is not one that the government wants to let anyone know about or that the Journal wants to highlight as a “Main Point”.
People can judge for themselves the reasons for such official reticence.
They really need to sort out the turn around time for test results. They have said they want to get results back in 2 days or 3. For 90% of the cases. This still means 10% are going to be longer. We did over 40,000 tests last week that would mean 4000 tests are longer than 3 and could be up to 7 days. Sorry but that’s not good enough and does not give a true reflection of cases on a daily basis
@Michael Fleming: surely we also need to ramp up community testing. 2 people I know who displayed symptoms and requested a test, waited weeks and then got called to 2 separate testing facilities. Both said there was hardly anyone else there.. They were both expecting it to be packed and staff said it was like that most days. So what are we waiting for????
Clarification needed on the so called poor uptake by creches etc in relation to front line workers children. Poor uptake was because they were informed by insurance companies that they would not be covered were covid 19 is concerned in this particular case.
Why are NPHET offering advice on the scrapped childcare plan?
Politics most like! They need to sti k to advice before it goes wrong!
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