The Government will begin work next week on a "medium-term plan" to take the country through the next six or nine months of living with the virus, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.He also said that weekly testing for Covid-19 will be rolled out at all meat plants and direct provision centres across the country.
— RTÉ News August 11, 2020 The Cabinet sub-committee on Covid-19 met this morning and were briefed by Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn. "We will be look at meat plants in general, in terms of occupational health, in terms of making sure the workers are protected and that the conditions in those factories are assessed in terms of their capacity to be conducive to the spread of the virus."What has happened in the past two months has been heavily concentrated in vulnerable groups and congregated settings.
Meanwhile, the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response is proposing to meet later this week to discuss the rapid spread of the coronavirus in meat plants. Detective Garda Jim Mulligan said enforcement powers are not built into the legislation governing the restrictions, but it would seek to learn if enforcement powers given to gardaí earlier for the countrywide measures could be relied on if necessary.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said it is unlikely Ireland is going to see a "really giant second wave" but that numbers of cases will probably "go up and down", adding "it's far better to suppress it than have local lockdowns".Speaking on the same programme, CEO Danny McCoy said local decisions can have an adverse impact on business and "the world does not stop because we have a local outbreak".
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