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Government ‘accepts’ recommendations to clamp down on household visits

The National Public Health Emergency Team said people should continue to meet socially in other settings, but only with those from one other house.

THE GOVERNMENT HAS accepted recommendations from public health experts to introduce tighter restrictions on household visits.

The public health team advising ministers urged that a maximum of six people from a single household be allowed to go to another house, in all parts of the country.

The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said the Government has accepted the advice.

The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) said people should be able to continue to meet socially in other settings, but only with those from one other household.

The clampdown on household visitors are being introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19 after more than 400 new coronavirus infections were detected yesterday.

Donnelly said he received a “very stark letter” from acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn after the Nphet meeting yesterday.

“Unfortunately, in spite of superb efforts by people across the country which are slowing the acceleration of the virus, it is still moving fast,” he told RTE Morning Ireland.

“We are now at 94 cases per 100,000. The five-day average, which is quite concerning, is now over 400 new cases per day.

“One thing I look at is the impact on our hospitals. We have seen a 30% increase in hospitalisations just in the past week.

“We are now at 119 people and the number of people going into intensive care is rising as well and unfortunately the evidence from across the world is, as those numbers go up, fatalities follow.

“The R number is now about 1.3 which means the level of the virus is doubling every two weeks.”

He said that the primary mode of transmission is close contacts and the main clusters around the country are within households.

“What is spreading this virus more than anything is different households meeting up with each other,” Donnelly warned.

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    Mute Paul Mc
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 7:59 PM

    Is it a dictatorship we are living in,just when you think we couldn’t get a worse Health Minister along comes the man who would literaly sell his soul for a seat at the cabinet table.

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    Mute Gavin Mckenna
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:04 PM

    @Paul Mc: Hello Jim McCorr… Flip off to North Korea so. Good boy.

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    Mute JedBartlett
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:35 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: Very original.

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    Mute Michael Bodycoach
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:47 PM

    @Paul Mc: get the boat you, you wouldn’t know a dictatorship if it hit you in the face

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    Mute potnoodle
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 9:19 PM

    @Paul Mc: last one was worse

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    Mute Stan Papusa
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    Oct 3rd 2020, 10:07 PM

    @Michael Bodycoach: I do know, and you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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    Mute Aprilelennon Lambe
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:21 PM

    Ok so they say limit the amount of people you meet yet, if you have 30 kids in a classroom and just for numbers sake they all have 2 parents each that makes 90 and say if each child has two siblings thats 150 so all together there are now 4500 close contacts from just one class. Yet you can only 6 other people from another household in your house.
    Can someone please tell the Government and NEPHT This as they are Bullshi#ting now!

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    Mute Michael J Flynn
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 11:02 PM

    @Aprilelennon Lambe: Maybe no cases have yet been traced back to classrooms?

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    Mute ed o brien
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    Oct 3rd 2020, 1:54 AM

    @Michael J Flynn: You are having a laugh!
    I know of 5 cases in local schools.

    Throttle back on the cool aid there boss.
    You dont have to go along with everything.

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    Mute Aprilelennon Lambe
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    Oct 3rd 2020, 6:31 AM

    @Michael J Flynn: There has been many a case in classrooms were it has been said that its a community transmission. Which means they havent got a bogs notion where it was caught it from. Roughly 4500 contacts a day in just one classroom and thats with out the teachers contacts. In my childs school there are 4 of each class that makes 144,000 contacts within a school not including staff. Sure you may as well have everywhere open if thats the amount of contacts our children are getting. Someting is not right and more and more children are been struck down by C19.

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    Mute Stan Papusa
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    Oct 3rd 2020, 10:11 PM

    @Michael J Flynn: I don’t have kids, but most of my friends do. Each of their kids schools have had at least one case, and except for close contacts and siblings nobody’s been asked to quarantine or study remotely. They’ve even been told that unless it gets to level 5 they won’t all go back to studying from home.
    Meanwhile, the households are the new frontlines in this battle. Go figure…

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    Mute Laura Walsh
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 7:59 PM

    “meet socially in other settings” where? You can’t even sit in a cafe in Dublin or Donegal.

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    Mute Stephen Gaffney
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:07 PM

    @Laura Walsh: They’re still digging in the phoenix park. So I was told.

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    Mute Tom Bombdadil
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:03 PM

    Recommendations is All they are, do you as you want.

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    Mute Gavin Mckenna
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:06 PM

    @Tom Bombdadil: Thanks Dr Tom. Good Boy. Mr Epidemiology.

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    Mute Vanessa
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 9:34 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: Those are only recommendations indeed aslong nobody is making a law.

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    Mute Tom Bombdadil
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 9:46 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: don’t need to be an epidemiologist to differentiate between “recommendations” and a “law” both are words not germs.

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    Mute Paul Lanigan
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:52 PM

    These are only guidelines.

    These are not restrictions
    These are not rules

    Make your own minds up

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    Mute Joan Featherstone
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 9:21 PM

    Three people in my house have been working in three different hospitals throughout Covid…if I want my family in my house, I’ll be having it.

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    Mute John Doyle
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 9:19 PM

    Only six people “allowed” this is the type of wording that attempts to have people believe that it’s a restriction or rule.

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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:59 PM

    Heil Nphet

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    Mute David Connell
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 10:53 PM

    Unfortunately they can do nothing……there is “No Law” in place as proven by Golfgate.

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    Mute Vanessa
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:45 PM

    Is it this time set in law or still a recommendation to follow a recommendation which the guards can’t enforce?
    I mean that seemed to be the narrative of the past…

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    Mute Luke
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:21 PM

    Assure good job we’ve that Living with covid plan
    Oh wait

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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:30 PM

    @Luke: was wondering which level we were moving to …

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    Mute John Egan
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    Oct 2nd 2020, 8:32 PM

    @Luke: if there’s any certainty in anything it’s that there is no plan.

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    Oct 3rd 2020, 12:18 AM

    It’s OK relax everyone.. Because reading media sites and fb we are all going to be saved next week, Tony Holohan is coming back to save us all!!!!!
    Now just a question were we not told only last weekend that although they’d no proof nphet thought people were getting virus in restaurants and pubs and that is reason Dublin pubs weren’t allowed open even though rest of country could because we all know coronavirus is related to mayo GAA and out to put a stop to Dubs getting Sam again, it’s the cleverest virus ever

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    Oct 3rd 2020, 10:03 AM

    Donnelly has firmly lost the room. No one listens to him. And his head looks so odd. He’s got hair but it’s all tucked in under a swimming cap. It’s hard to take him seriously when he’s pretending to be bald.

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