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THE NATIONAL PUBLIC Health Emergency Team is expected to discuss testing errors when it meets later today.
Yesterday, the HSE said that some people were incorrectly told that they had tested negative for Covid-19.
The error was blamed on the fact that some lab tests had been returned with indeterminate results.
Less than 100 people are said to be affected by the testing error.
There have been repeated questions about Ireland’s testing capacity. Yesterday, HSE chief executive Paul Reid said the backlog of testing has been reduced from 35,000 to 11,000.
Over 72,000 tests for Covid-19 have now been completed, with a delivery of testing reagent having now been received from China.
The National Public Health Emergency Team is also expected to look at the challenge facing nursing homes during the crisis.
Coronavirus clusters have been detected in 140 nursing homes, according to the latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
So far, 365 people have died in Ireland during the coronavirus outbreak. There are now 10,647 confirmed cases of the virus in Ireland.
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Can we please stop propagating the lies of the English media? Brexit did the damage, not the protocol.
@James Pelow: Very well said. They’re actually using it as a distraction. And it’s drawing us into something that has nothing to do with us. Brexit is the problem. End of story.
You can’t hold a poll asking people if they think the Protocol is good for Northern Ireland without clarifying what the alternative is.
That’s like asking a child if they think the settlement that their parents agreed to after divorce is good.
Let’s be clear… article 16 does not end the protocol. It can suspend a part of it for a short period of time. When the UK says it will trigger A16, call it out for what they want to do….they want to scrap it and force a border on the island of Ireland or a border between Ireland and EU. That’s their plan and I believe it’s been the plan all along. This mess has been made by the UK and the protocol is a plaster. The GB companies that send those goods that will never end up back in the EU (including ROI) need to be better catered for. The issue is that there is no trust between the UK and EU as, so far, the UK hasn’t implemented main parts of the protocol so all at risk goods must be considered guilty until proven innocent.
Ok theJournal…. Time to correct your headlines… “Is Brexit bad or good for firms in Northern Ireland?”
The protocol is a workaround to the main issue, Brexit..
While I’ve no doubt it has caused some legitimate disruption for businesses heavily linked to GB, how did the study take into account costs (for consultancy etc) that would’ve been incurred without the procotol because they also trade with the EU?
Or how did it take into account all the paperwork NI businesses save because they can trade with the Republic and the rest of the EU freely?
All these analyses seem to assume that trade with Ireland was either insignificant, or its continuity was a a given (neither of these are true) and that any disruption with GB is a cost without any quantifiable benefit (again not true).
It’s not the protocol that’s not working. It’s brexit that’s not working.
How dare the EU break away from the United Kingdom. They’ve made things very difficult for everyone, especially the Brits!
By leaving the CU and SM and going for a Sharia Brexit GB turned itself into a legal and regulatory Kaliningrad. Their call-their choice…If they hadn’t CHOSEN that there would be no protocol. They want a hard border in IRL or IRL out the the EU-they will get neither but what they will get is humiliation.
It is improving trade between north and south.
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