The Director of the UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory said on Twitter that further testing this week of SARSCoV2 samples from 23 to 29 December detected the additional cases, bringing to 16 the total number of cases identified.
Further testing this week of #SARSCoV2 samples dating from #December 23rd to 29th has detected 9 additional #UKvariant cases in #Ireland. This brings the total number of cases identified @nvrlucdireland to 16 1/2 https://t.co/gBEy0VjXO7 — Cillian De Gascun January 1, 2021 Yesterday, Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan warned that the health system will not cope with the impact of the rise in cases, with at least 9,000 new cases set to be reported in the coming days.
The government’s pussyfooting over the Christmas period permitted this to happen.
Of course its here. I’m not sure the variant is actually more contagious. I think its more to do with Xmas interactions increasing. Scaring people into thinking its more contagious is a convenient narrative to slow things. It was highly contagious from day 1 nothing has changed.
Absolute rubbish. They’re hardly checking what variant is here at all, did a small sample and now want to extrapolate that data. The air routes between U.K. and Ireland are very busy. Dublin-London one of the busiest in the world. They expect us to believe it’s not here?
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