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LAST UPDATE | 4 Apr 2020
THERE WERE 171 clusters of Covid-19 detected in Ireland before midnight on 1 April, with 40 of them in nursing homes according to the latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
Of these nursing home clusters, 32 were in the east of the country according to the HPSC.
This afternoon, Minister for Health Simon Harris announced new measures aimed at supporting nursing homes during the current crisis.
This will include staff screening in nursing homes twice a day, Covid-19 testing being prioritised for staff and the HSE providing access to PPE, expert advice and training.
Each nursing home will be identifying a Covid-19 lead, the Department of Health said.
Staff movement across residential facilities will be minimised, with the HSE supporting staff with alternative transport and accommodation if required.
A temporary financial support scheme is also to be established in the coming days to support private and voluntary nursing homes in managing any outbreak that occurs. The scheme is envisaged to last for three months and will be reviewed after the first month of operation.
Minister Harris said: “We must do everything we can to support them to help break the transmission of the virus.
To this end we are extending supports to this sector so that they can continue their role in the overall public health response to Covid-19. Our goal, in these challenging times, is to protect our older people, wherever they are living.
In other statistics released today, 148 people had been admitted to intensive care due to the virus with 1,039 people hospitalised.
The most recent data released yesterday highlighted a further 424 new cases, bringing the total number in Ireland to 4,273. A further 22 deaths brought the overall number to 120 since the outbreak began.
According to the HPSC, people in the east of the country have been more likely to become infected with coronavirus so far with an incidence rate of 154.2 per 100,000 population.
In terms of cases admitted to intensive care as of midnight Wednesday, 47.9% of them were aged between 45 and 64. A further 39.9% were aged 65 and over.
For clusters, 31 of the 171 were classed as in private homes and 30 were identified in hospitals. Another 21 are travel related.
The surge of confirmed cases seen in nursing homes so far is expected to hit hospitals in the coming weeks, the president of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland yesterday.
In the number of cases where people sadly passed away – figures correct as of 11am yesterday – 91.2% (103) of them were over 65, two people were aged between 25 and 34, two were aged between 35 and 54 and a further six people aged 55-64 had died.
- With reporting from Cónal Thomas at the Department of Health
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They are going to start telling the truth?
Ah now… Be fair! This is the Daily Heil we’re talking about. They wouldn’t know the truth if it came up and slapped them on their “Outraged of Tunbridge Wells” arses.
The best possible change for that hate-filled, bile-spewing rag is to crawl back under the slimy rock it came out from, and to die there
Any chance they might stop printing this rag?
This rag only prints stuff to get a reaction…nothing more, they don’t care about the public interest or people’s well being. Don’t believe me…lets take one example from 2009 shall we…
In April 2009, blogger The Lay Scientist noted an interesting discrepancy in the policy of the Daily Mail. On the British edition, known for its scare stories on health, there was a demand to stop the compulsory administration of the HPV cervical cancer vaccine. This is fair enough as these people will go against any medical treatment given away for free.
However, on the Irish edition there was a campaign to “roll out the vaccine now!” demanding that the government issue it immediately – as in Ireland, it wasn’t going to be issued as freely as in Britain.
The Daily Mail and the Irish Daily Mail are owned by the same people and have the same (alleged) editorial stance – this wasn’t a case of The Guardian saying one thing and The Express saying another. This has led to people declaring that the Mail’s true position is “whatever the government is for, we’re against.”
source: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/18/bad-science-cancer-jabs-daily-mail
What the Hell is wrong with the people in the 10% market share . Why would u buy that tripe
It’s going to be savagely deleted from the annals of history?
Can one hope for too much?!?!
Your beloved Guardian is going broke. :)
I wouldnt wrap my fish and chips in the mail. But I winds up the hippies and diversity darlings no end.
Cant be that bad, so!
Loving this comment thread. It validates my hatred of this awful newspaper
Haters will hate but what do you know about the media and how it works?
If you’re looking to TheJournal.ie comment section for validation of your views, you’re doing something awfully wrong.
Good Point. I’ll get my coat
The “Irish” Daily Mail is so utterly offensive in every possible way. It’s tried it’s best to whip up outrage the way it does in the UK, but thankfully it hasn’t really worked.
I found it laughable that they were *attacking* Phil Hogan for saving his constituents from having to live with Travellers in the vicinity. The Fail is usually such a bastion of support for minorities!!
On that note its time for the Daily Mail Song
Knock them all you want but they’ve reported quite a few stories the other Irish papers wouldn’t touch.
Like ?
Mainly stories relating to the economic collapse and the people involved.
Here’s one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382368/I-shouted-stop-Finance-Department-mandarin-warned-crash-seven-times–ALL-ignored.html#ixzz1LDOFuNZg
They also did a good expose on Seanie Fitz and his lending to family members, including his college student daughter. I’m no particular fan of them, their agenda and the manner in which they report news but when actual Irish papers run scared of reporting news, we need an outside paper to do it. A good example is their story on Cowen asking the NTMA to invest in Anglo. That was the final nail in the coffin and brought about the early election. Because the IT and Indo didn’t have the balls to run that story, we could have been stuck with Cowen for longer.
Just because The Mail did “exposes” doesn’t mean that there was any truth to them whatsoever. Chances are these “exposes” were fabricated on a slow news day and peddled to their idiot readers as fact. The Daily Mail can piss off, and take that other virus The Sunday Independent with them.
Ruari, you can apply that to any news outlet. Regardless of you hating the Mail, the very fact that it’s not part of the establishment here, like the Indo and Times, is a good thing for the media in Ireland as like someone else commented, it means that the paper will take on stories that the other two wouldn’t touch.
Associated Newspapers may be British but painting both editions as one and the same is pure laziness. There are plenty of columnists in the Irish Mail who would be regularly critical of the British establishment (they even employ Joe Higgins for feck sake!) and most of the reporters are Irish thereby ensuring most of the stories are Irish. Yes, it goes to extremes with its awful coverage of the British royals but all the others do it too.
Oh, I disagree… I wouldn’t think that the Indo are averse to making up a story or two to peddle their muck. But I agree with you about the Irish Times. They are way too reputable.
changing editors causes/cures cancer.
People who read thejournal hate the daily mail.
How utterly predictable.
I honestly can’t understand how anyone wouldn’t hate the Daily Mail… aside from the people who work for it, obviously!
Well, I don’t know either as I don’t buy it. ;)
However, if you start reading it online, you’ll find it strangely addictive…
You’d be surprised by some articles (and utterly unsurprised by others), like the one about “Was Monty’s finest hour just a pointless bloodbath? Historians claim El Alamein – which began 70 years ago today – sacrificed thousands for the sake of propaganda”
Not what one would expect from the Daily Mail…
People who set up twitter account’s just to comment on the journal support the daily mail, how surprising.
rag
The Daily Hate Mail was rabidly anti-Irish throughout the 20th century. You could have knocked me over with a feather when they opened an Irish edition. Surely the most racist and vitriolic paper in respect of the Irish ever to see print couldn’t get a foothold here, I thought? You’d have better chances selling signed photos of George W Bush in Bin Laden’s cave, I thought. But no. There’s clearly 10% of people with no understanding of recent, modern history whatsoever.
Or they just bought it for the free CDs.
The Irish editions are decent enough reads
good crossword, good sports and good for lighting the fire
There’s no real journalism in that paper, just regurgitations of comments and stories found online that they then “quote” as said to their reporters. It’s a joke!
” Whatever the government is for, they’re against” They just print stuff to create a reaction” etc etc. Sounds like a paper made for the majority of commentors on the Journal if you ask me. What’s the problem? :)
Ink never refused paper!…as they say…also today’s newspaper,tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper..:-)..
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