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RESTRICTIONS INTRODUCED TO tackle the spread of Covid-19 are set to be in place for at least another couple of weeks, Dr Cillian De Gascun of the National Virus Reference Laboratory indicated this morning.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland programme this morning, De Gascun warned that restrictions would not disappear overnight.
The restrictions were due to end on 12 April – but it is widely expected that the measures will continue beyond Easter Sunday.
De Gascun said that while he hoped that some of the restrictions could be lifted in the “next couple of weeks”, he said that “we need to do better before we can realistically lift those restrictions”.
“We are conscious of the fact that the restrictions are very difficult for people,” he said. “And they are not sustainable in the long term, so what we would hope to do is be able to lift them in the next couple of weeks and then monitor the situation from the virus perspective.”
He warned that the government could then possibly “increase the restrictions again if needs be depending on the number of cases, depending on the number of people going into hospital, the number of people going into intensive care”.
“There is a long way to go unfortunately,” he added.
To date, 263 patients diagnosed with the coronavirus have died in Ireland, while there are now 6,574 confirmed cases in the country.
De Gascun said that a lot depends on the sampling and testing being carried out by the government and HSE. “We would expect our laboratory testing capacity to increase dramatically over the next seven to 10 days,” he said.
If some restrictions were eased, De Gascun suggested that people might be allowed outside more and some retail outlets could re-open again.
But he emphasised that “we’re not going to be going back to a normal state of affairs”.
Roll on 2moro!!!!!! Can’t wait!!
I hope he means ‘metaphorically’ and not ‘literally’.
Would be a lot more useful if these idiots tackled countries such as China, Iran and Burma that restrict free access to the Internet. Suppose it’s not newsworthy though.
They have recently. Iran was hit by op anti sec. Government departments.
So there.
You won’t here about it with mainstream media. Try arstechnica.com or wired.com
can they transfare funds into ecb to bail out italy.since the rest of europ is broke.
I’d prefer if they transferred out of the ECB into Ireland seeing as they’ve screwed us over for the last few years.
and all across the land IT staff plugged out their modems at home just in case, the work ones can wait till after coffee.
Non starter. No-one in Anonymous has any skill beyond SQL injection and DDoS attacks.
They do this to show that big fancy businesses can’t even protect from basic attacks such sql injection or ddos attacks and we’re supposed to trust them with our details.
Just criminals
…as opposed to unjust criminals? I agree!
Can’t wait to see what they do! Fair play to them exposing the flaws in Internet security. It’s the ones that sneak in and say nothing you need to worry about
It’s just someone with an agenda
Spoilists if such a term exists.
Brilliant brilliant minds used for mediocre purposes.
Why don’t you try famine, disease, dictatorships etc etc
Attack them, if you win ……. the world wins
God bless you and help you to make the right decision
Because they don’t have Internet? :-) To be serious, all this hacking is not directed at “who”, it is way more often directed at “viable of doing or not?”. Of course there is extra pride and hype amongst hacker groups if they manage hit something big. But reality is they always look for weak targets and easy points first and then just narrow down more and more to select something attractive. In other words, they hack what they can, not necessarily what they would like to.
Guys… anyone know what a false-flag attack is ?? …9/11 … the government / powers that be are gearing up to shut down the web as we know it… and reboot with a new COMPLETELY CONTROLED & CENSORED Web.. …using security fears / blaming hackers for there actions…
Must Watch >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDwsslGcC4w
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