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IRELAND’S DEPUTY CHIEF Medical Officer, Dr Ronan Glynn, has warned that many people are suffering from prolonged side effects from Covid-19, despite being recorded as having recovered from the illness.
At a media briefing this evening, Dr Glynn said that health authorities are seeing an increase in the number of people taking a long time to fully recover their energy levels and having difficuties with exercise tolerance, even if they weren’t hospitalised for the illness.
In Ireland 92% of confirmed Covid-19 cases are marked as having recovered from the virus. However, Dr Glynn said that many of those people still are not back to feeling how they felt before they contracted the disease.
As Covid-19 is a very new infection medics are still learning about how it affects people over time. Dr Glynn explained that it’s not unusual for people to take a long time to recover after a significant respiratory illness, but they still need to closely monitor people for prolonged side effects.
He added that it’s difficult to provide much more detail at present because many of the people are still within the first two months of their illness.
The health official said that it serves as a message to people that don’t perceive theselves as being vulnerable to the disease because the ultimate outcome is “unknown”.
Just because, perhaps, you’re younger, or perhaps you don’t perceive yourself as someone who might suffer the most significant effects of this disease, if you are to become infected, it doesn’t neccessarily mean that you shouldn’t be doing all in your power to ensure that you don’t get this disease, that people in your family, your friends don’t get this disease, because the ultimate outcome for you, or any one of your family or friends, is unknown.
Dr Glynn advised anyone recovering from Covid-19 to contact their GP with any questions or concerns they may have.
There have been a total of 25,238 confirmed cases of the coronavirus illness in Ireland after eight new cases were announced this evening. Health officials said that a further eight patients have died from the disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,703.
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What in the name of bejesus is Michael Healy Rae doing wearing his cap inside the house he really should know better.
@Dae Monicus: he shouldnt be let in for that
@Rear Admiral: wouldn’t be left into many houses around where I live in the sticks with his cap on anyway Admiral, tis a thick ear he’d end up with.
@Vigo the Carpathian: Been from the sticks I shouldn’t laugh but sure when something’s funny tis funny, I remember one time a lad came into me grandmother’s house wearing a jacket he wore with years an was told you can hang your cap up on the back of the door and leave that skin disease out on the window sill.
@Vigo the Carpathian: This is a fact that I can attest to..so very true.The hat gene is rare.
@Dae Monicus: did you know they put a man on the moon? Lol- he’s been wearing his cap for many years in Parliament , and you only noticed now?
@Dermot McGarthy: Er no Dermot I never commented on it before is all, the Sun doesn’t shine during night time I never commented on that before either, so by your logic I automatically assume someone puts it in a big bag till sunrise is it.
@Dae Monicus: well said and what about the likes of Wallace & Co, pink T -shirts and all. It’s an outrage that an appropriate dress policy is not enforced. The Dail was hard fought for and it’s disgusting to see the complete lack of respect being shown by some td’s
@Dae Monicus: That hat was on him from his first day in the Dail,so what is wrong with that
@James Mc Loughlin: James to be honest my comment was more to do with rural folks attitude to wearing caps hats and such head gear inside a house, and to be fair the three protagonists do indeed look smart and tidily dressed, my point been from my experience living in the sticks enter a house cap comes off as I alluded to in further comments.
@Dae Monicus:
The BLAND v The BLAND.
Leave it to Leo and Fine Gael – 60% approval rating. Muff said.
@Donal Hanley: to be straight Donal I struggle to take any of them seriously anymore.
@Joseph Dempsey: I don’t know how strictly the dress code is enforced if even there is one Joseph, but yah know they do represent us as the electorate and while I reckon we shouldn’t hav fashion police at the same time I suppose tidy dress would be more of an expectation as a rule of thumb rather than a copper fastened rule, I’m sure neither you nor I am insisting stove pipe hats should be order or the day.
@Dae Monicus: He has no respect. Enjoys taking the salary and once and a while will make a show of himself to let people know he is in the Dail. Guess who gets paid the most for contract work from Kerry county council….. Healy Rae plant hire. Rae is not even his name just a nick name I believe. I would love to see an investigation into the money they get from the taxpayer. Irish independent…He missed two-thirds of votes in his first Dáil term, despite being signed in for his expenses on each day a vote was taken.
@Dae Monicus: i remembere and old farmer going in and out to doctors and dermatologists claiming it was Denim that was causes his skin problems , not dirt ..
@Dae Monicus: Ohhhh Take the HR’s seriously. They are lining their pockets nicely in Kerry out of all these stage tricks and leprechaun antics
Can we get subtitles for the Healy Raes?
@Sandra O’Fucáif: If you look at the article you will see it was not the Healy Rays who started this but a bully boy fromFianna Fail,and Willie O Dea trying to stop him from insulting the chair
@Gareth Kennan: The road ruining fairies won’t allow that…
@James Mc Loughlin: @Sandra if you look at the article no one was described as a bully. That’s you applying your own prejudice. Speaking of which what do you think about the two leprechauns
@Gareth Kennan: kept on swiping the hair of the screen. Haha, good one on the profile pic.
Healy raes…voted in by the people..working for the people….hats off….
@Maurice Murphy: Cleverer than that. One hat on, one hat off. Cute.
@Maurice Murphy: they are embarrassing
@Maurice Murphy: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/danny-healy-rae-s-haulage-firm-has-earned-8-7m-in-state-contracts-1.3179273 Yes for the people…
If only i could post gifs…. id post Statler and Waldorf from the muppets….
Embarrassing gombeens – the epitome of parish pump politics that assails the entire democratic system that we live under.
@Ros Aodha: well said
@Marc Power: How can you say well said
@Ros Aodha: well said
Send a note home to their Mammy’s saying they were bad boy’s shouting in class.
Those two muppets that no one understands keeping themselves in the limelight as usual . Worked a treat as we are all taking about them. Wait until you see six one!! Their dad was quite good at it also when he needed to be.
@Peadar Dermody: Far from muppets, take a walk around Kerry any day and call them muppets and you will be laughed at. They fully understand the system and work unbelievably hard, I only wish that they represented me. Rural Ireland would get nothing only for the likes if these guys.
@Peadar Dermody: do the get paid for all their studio visits?
They are 2 independents who are spineless, sneaky and will only do what’s popular not what’s right. They are what you would call “prostitutes of politicians”. No one can speak on the others speaking time never mind on one independents time over the other. They are not a party but to try and sneak in while the other is speaking clearly shows the sneaky tactics that they use. No time for them or what they stand for. Which is primarily themselves.
@John Hartley: Same as everyone else in the Dail so, with maybe the exception of Catherine Murphy?
Comedy gold, it’s like watching kids in a creche.
@Paul Mc: ah! Now!Now!Now! Don’t be belittling the kids in a crèche!!!
@Paul Mc: Agree Paul, but sadly we the fools are covering the crèche costs.
@Paul Mc: Some sort of crash lol.
If children behaved like this in school their parents would be summoned to the principles office . Thes individual’s are getting huge salaries for this behaviour.
@Michael Edmonds: Principal’s Office
Signed,
Spelling Police
Watching this from the USA, indeed subtitles are needed. Is this what you call Craic in Ireland
The dumbest human beings on this island
@Alfred Pennyworth: but they get things done for their constituents in fairness to them
@Adam Pamplin: Parish pump politics at its worst
@Alfred Pennyworth: cutest hoors in Ireland, more like.
@Alfred Pennyworth:
McSharry isn’t the brightest either.
@Adam Pamplin: They get things done for their own business interests
@DJ François: P.P.P is100% O.K. Provided that the pump is in Dublin!!
@DJ François: there’s no point blaming the Healy-Rays for parish pump politics when our entire political system is based on parish pump politics.
@Alfred Pennyworth: I would blame Mcsharry over the two boys. Just doing what FF did for the last 80 years. Look after their own. At least they don’t pretend to help city dwellers.
@Alfred Pennyworth: They got over 30,000 votes to elect them. Kerry people are no fools!
@DJ François: best”
@Adam Pamplin: i wonder am sure they would turn off anyone investing in the region of kerry.
@John Mc Donagh: Spot on John, these guys are only amateurs compared to Tony Gregory, Liam Skelly and Shane Ross.
If only Stormont were this lively.
@Mick Tobin: ye there’s never rows between politicians there…
Really quite depressing seeing this carry-on, even more depressing seeing what’s representing us in the Dail. Has there ever been such a shower of misfits, disrespectful, unkempt motley crew. A national embarrassment , shocking to think what the outside world thinks of this Appalling spectacle
@Joseph Dempsey: I blame the electorate. The Healy Raes are a reflection of ourselves.
Ireland would be lost if the Dail was populated by well educated, articulate, thoughtful statesmen and women.
We need these crayturs in cyaps who think a few pints and a drive is god’s will and lads in tshirts and jeans chasing imaginary illuminati bogeymen to remind us who we are, what’s important and why we are special.
Will somebody please advise Michael Healy Rea that it has stopped raining and the leak in Leinster House is now fixed.
Does he wear his cap in bed as he seems to wear it everywhere else. We have to take our hats off the two brothers for the fine comedy that they provide to the people of Ireland and further afield.
@Irish big fellow: more like (Jackie) wannabe. Like father like Son’s!. Pathetic Clowns.
The Kerry mafia gombeens who live in a surreal world akin to 1960′s rural Ireland
What a Gombeen !! Check Wiki for a proper explanation of Gombeen
looks like they need a couple of bullocks to herd those 2 farmers back into the field.
@Rear Admiral: didn’t one of them have a run in with a cow one time-did anyone check to see was the cow okay.
Where would you get that kind of politics only in feckin Ireland
Holding up placards to take turns in speaking. Morons the lot
@Grasshopper: You obviously haven’t seen PMQ’s across the water… Our lot are actually quite civilised… dumb as pig sh*t but at least it’s civilised pig sh*t…
@Vigo the Carpathian: pig shits more intelligent
The Brothers Healy-Rae’s antics in the Dáil just shows the people of the Country how deep into the barrel we have gone to find Legislators, next time around the Electorate should consider their options more carefully and avoid the Gombeen candidates who are growing like weeds in the Chamber.
Fine example of the Clowns Kerry/Sligo-Leitrim, happily vote for. The mind boggles…
@j4VEpUO8: Who did you vote for? Bertie Ahern perhaps?
Pure Gombeens!
I say if you were there good aul laugh Healy raes are failure pool and mcsharry og an arrogant failure just like the old guard not a patch on his father Ray who had more
Diplomacy unlike his son who is living off his name
Crikey, it was like feeding time at the zoo.
Crusties, cowboys and then this lot and then we wonder why the yanks voted for Trump!
At least its not as bad as the John O’ Donahue Ceann Comhairle incident in 2007
The chuckle brothers
Yep.
We pay all these clowns.
Savage malinvestment of taxpayer’s money.
D’Unbelievables are back together..yay
What a shower of absolute w*nkers
At least its not as bad as the John O’ Donahue Ceann Comhairle incident in 2007
Just goes to show you the brain cells they gave in Kerry to vote these two clowns in.
@John Hartley: John the brains of the country are in Kerry believe me -I live in a neighbouring county and they would buy and sell you.
@TheBluffmaster2: I think I know only too well. Sneaky, cute, spineless, self centered, under handed, jealous, if I could think of 100 more it still could not describe them …..As Paudi O Shea would say ……….Animals.
Embarrassing…. inept, overpayed clowns
FF arguing with FF. the independents propping up government are FG. those who vote for them are worse.
@Sean Conway: it’s all for show. They all know an election is looming &they know this play acting will get them on the news .. “look at us, we’re having a row with FF, we’re not FF ourselves but we can sock it to them “
At least it’s not as bad as the John O Donahue Ceann Comhairle incident in 2007
Astonished at the number of comments that are based on image and appearance. Are the Irish now so gullible that they will base their evaluation of people on image and dress. How about what a person says and does regardless of appearance, accent, color, creed etc. get back to reality Irish people and your country may indeed prosper again.
Not a supporter of any politicians in Ireland ….. just a perplexed observer wondering how well educated intelligent people form opinions in the modern world ….. image, spin, dress code, politically correct phrases and sounds ….. what nonsense !!!!
@Moderate Man: Perfectly said.
All that was missing was a pantomime dame. The quality of debate is lamentable. The appearance adopted by some TDs is deplorable and all defended on the basis of some fake solidarity for the plain people. Wearing a tie or brushing one’s hair and speaking clearly and articulately is the least one should expect of parliamentarians.
The job site advertisement in the middle of the article made me think of a word that’s missing from the headline
@domas1507: what job advertisement !! thankfully I use ad blocking on my router to save from such distractions !
send in the clowns ….send them out more important!!!!!!!!!Four donkeys in that clip are talking over 500000 euro between them from the HARD PRESSED TAXPAYERS OF THIS COUNTRY Jesus wept.
This is what we vote into the dail, no wonder the country is on its arse!
The whole house is a joke they should be made watch the British house to see how it is done with some dignity
@FlopFlipU: Any time I’ve watched the UK parliament, it seems highly repressed or confrontational. I put that down to the historical need to confront and face down their monarchs. And possibly all the bars. Our TDs are all elected equals, aren’t they? Decently salaried, generous expenses paid? No reason why they can’t debate topics with respect. Sharing time is normal enough. And I’d say the vast majority of the Irish people don’t care who proposes what as long as it’s serving our best interests. A good idea is a good idea no matter who or what party proposes it. I’m sick of reading quibbles over what amounts to a stupid tug-of-war over who gets publicity and credit. They’re public servants.
Was it all for show as they all shut up quickly enough???
@Alois Irlmaier: the sound cut out after the Ceann Comhairle suspended the sitting, you can still see his lips moving as the clip ends
Nice distraction from Varadkars “shiit happens” speech telling sick airmen to suck it up.
A new hospital over the road in Cork. Who are the gobsites now? as Padge & Rodge would say.
Proud to be Irish watching this carry on? I think not!
As gubnet o’ Luanassy would say It’s a right soft job they have ! Put that in yer pipe and smoke it ! Meow
Kerry & Cavan FFs ..nuf said..
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