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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed 2,549 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
As of 8am today, there were 481 Covid-19 patients in hospital, of which 97 are in ICU.
Yesterday, there were 2,605 new cases of Covid-19, 487 people with the virus in hospital and 99 in ICU.
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) said on Wednesday that there had been 67 deaths notified to them in the past week, bringing Ireland’s total to 5,436.
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:
“Today we are reporting a high number of cases across the entire population, with the highest incidence amongst 5 to 12-year-olds. While the Covid-19 vaccines give high protection against severe illness, hospitalisation and death, the way to break transmission is by following all aspects of the public health advice.
“This weekend, you can enjoy your favourite Halloween activities safely by taking some simple precautions:
“If you are having visitors over, provide hand sanitiser, open windows and try to ensure people can spread out and keep their distance from one another – avoid crowded parties.
“For trick-or-treaters, give out treats outdoors if possible. Wash or sanitise hands frequently, and before eating or handling treats.
“Neither children nor adults should go trick-or-treating or meet up with others if they have any symptoms of Covid-19, even if symptoms are minor – instead, please isolate and get a test.”
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Pretty ironic that you should make a comment like that regarding eva longoria as she was at the web summit to speak on the difficulties and prejudices faced by women in business !!! You can probably google her achievements in business and with charity work and you should probably in the future refrain from such sexist comments if you dont have your homework done .
No-one’s saying she’s not accomplished Sinead, but a cynic (like me) could argue the reason she was picked to speak at Web Summit was more to do with her celebrity than anything else. AMD microchips, for example, just got its first female CEO so it would make more sense to ask her – or one of the many successful women working in technology – to speak about the difficulties women face in business considering it’s a technology conference.
I believe the word that Sinead is looking for is Touché! Well said Peter.
I think its probably fair to say its more of a technology in businesses conference. And if the CEO of AMD had spoken, i wonder would she have commented on how her salary is substantially less than that of her male predecessor? My point is that if that were the case you probably wouldnt have mentioned that in your summary but you chose to highlight Eva Longorias presence purely based on her looks and fame and not the content of her address.
I think her performance on tonight’s late late speaks for itself…self serving ditz with very little going on between the ears. not that she’s helped much in an interview by tubridy, who is just appalling at what he does
Ringing the bell for Irish emigrants to come home? No way not on your nelly. To much well paid work over here.
(I work in construction btw)
Great to see so many smart Irish start-ups in one place. Good for a bit of networking with overseas heads also.
My favs were Loylap, EnergyElephant, Foodcloud and some german nut who wanted to save the world with a shower head… interesting!
I’m sure a few of these could easily teach Irish Water a thing or two about how to set up a company properly and not p*ss every potential customer off.
I wanted to save the world with an empty plastic bottle … but that’s another story entirely.
Add Jibbr to the list of great Irish start ups.
I thought Loylap gave good pitches as well. Clever idea.
*I agree the LoyLap guys were pretty good. (*=I may be biased :D)
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