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LAST UPDATE | 5 Oct 2020
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY will be put under Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions from midnight on Tuesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced in an address this evening.
The Taoiseach confirmed that the government decided not to enter further into lockdown measures by moving to Level 5. Ireland will instead enter Level 3 for a period of three weeks.
The situation will be reviewed again after this period.
“This is not about public health and businesses competing against each other, it’s about lives and livelihoods. We can’t have one without the other,” Micheál Martin said.
The Cabinet met today following a recommendation from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) that the entire country enter Level 5 – the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan and other senior ministers discussed this with Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan earlier today.
The government this evening rejected calls to move to Level 5 and instead proposed moving the country to Level 3. This was then approved by Cabinet.
Currently, the rest of Ireland is at Level 2 while Dublin and Donegal are at Level 3.
Level 3 restrictions
No more than six people from no more than two households can meet in a home or garden.
No social/family gatherings should take place, aside from funerals and weddings.
There are no indoor gatherings permitted. Outdoor gatherings of up to 15 people are allowed.
People should remain in their own counties except for those who need to travel for essential reasons such as work or education.
All retail shops and shopping centres can stay open. People aged over 70 and the medically vulnerable are advised to continue to exercise personal judgement.
As part of the new measures, indoor dining in pubs and restaurants will be banned across the country.
Outdoor seating and service will be allowed outside restaurants, bars and wet pubs.
Pubs that do not serve food outside Dublin will be allowed to open but they will only be able to provide an outdoor service to a maximum of 15 people. ‘Wet’ pubs in Dublin will still remain closed.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the challenge with implementing new measures is “to be as effective and proportionate as possible”.
“The virus is spreading because people are allowing it to spread,” he said.
A NPHET source told TheJournal.ie last night that the “projections are very bad” and there needs to be a “major shift”. They said that there has been a “big deterioration” in the situation in the country in recent days.
The number of new daily confirmed cases has been increasing in Ireland over the past few weeks, with more than 1,000 new cases confirmed over the weekend.
On Saturday, there were 613 new cases confirmed, 470 cases on Friday and 442 on Thursday.
According to the latest data from the HPSC, the national incidence rate is 107 cases per 100,000 of the population on a 14-day rolling average.
With reporting by Christina Finn.
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Juice your own! Cheaper and a lot less sugar!
There smoothies are loaded with as much suger as fizzy drinks terrible stuff
Natural fruit sugar is healthier than the sugar in fizzy drinks, not really a good comparison
On the contrary! Too much fruit, especially when juiced and when fibre is removed causes a huge spike in blood sugar.
Boycott apples and oranges, they are full of sugar!
Get a grip folks, everything in moderation, live and let live etc.
This stuff is absolutely loaded with suger…far from innoncent!
It was always rank slop filled with sugar. And it still is.
It’s an interesting business case study , not really as strange a move as it may appear though as Tropicana orange juice was taken over by Pepsi many years earlier so Coke was just responding to the growth in markets for juices and smoothies , plus they had missed the mark when Redbull stole a lead in the energy drink market under their nose so buying innocent made perfect sense for them
It has all to do with selling sugar……America is awash with cheap corn syrup (fructose), and anything that value adds to this cheap form of sugar is fair game for the likes of Coca Cola.
If you look at the aisles in somewhere like Dunnes Stores, there is a full row of biscuits, a full aisle of sweets and chocolate, and ever increasing amounts of pop scattered around the store.
In the fridge section, you now have Smoothies creeping in beside the fruit juices. There is an ever increasing percentage of floor area being devoted to foods based on this cheap sugar.
It can be dressed up with fancy fruit and marketing and labelling the thing Innocent, but it is still a very unhealthy form of sugar.
The chap says he goes over to Brazil and buys up almost all the oranges , where are these oranges grown ? Are they grown on land that is cleared rainforest.
Things go better with coke.
They’re milking the juice.
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I think Coca-Cola are an unethical company so I try to keep my spend on their products as low as possible. I had an Innocent smoothie once & that was enough. Over-priced shite
Sugar trade. More channels fr CocaCola to push disguised sugar. Innocent…yeah right.
So don’t buy it.
As do bosca ?
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