The Government’s focus in reopening remains on personal responsibility rather than public intervention, with people urged to shun places notable for poor compliance rather than having the State step in. A combination of both may still be required.noted this week, the Government is grappling with the complicated middle ground between a closed and reopened economy against the backdrop of an unsettling trajectory .
The Government is juggling a virus that will transmit better in the autumn and winter because of increased indoor mixing along with the first winter of the Delta variant and “breakthrough” infections among the vaccinated. The Government is taking bubble-wrapping measures again to protect the most vulnerable, rolling out third “booster” vaccine shots for older people. It is finally embracing antigen testing for the wider population. The phased return to offices is becoming even more phased. Face-mask use will continue well into 2022.where, almost 100 days after Freedom Day, the government is facing mounting pressure from healthcare figures to make face masks mandatory and advise people to work from home .
Here, as infections in hospital accelerate at a rate of 2 to 3 per cent a day, and with an average of five coronavirus admissions to intensive care daily, the pressure on a poorly equipped and under-resourced healthcare system may yet force the Government to change its response. If the trends continue in this wrong direction, Nphet is forecasting a peak of 800 to 1,000 people in hospital and 150 to 200 in ICUs by late November. That is below the worst of the third wave in January when admissions peaked at 2,020 people in hospital and 221 in ICU, but it will still mean the HSE abandoning non-Covid services in winter, traditionally the busiest time for hospitals.
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