Govt: New variant at 'significant level' across country

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Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said Government and health officials have received additional information that the new Covid-19 variant first identified in the UK is now at a 'significant level' in all parts of the country. Follow live updates:

 

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The ‘full reopening’ of schools. The CMO acknowledged in his briefing last night that bringing in 60,000 students is very different than bringing in 1 million. The government reduced the movement of students by 940,000 as well as Level 5 measures.

The schools were open for several months ... The way people are talking we should have a line of baby coffins outside graveyards .. the data is there ... 0 - 65 age range account for 74% of all cases but only 17 total deaths !!... Stop your scare mongering !!

Don't our children have the constitutional right to an education ? Will the year be extended into the summer so the kids get the education they should ? How will primary schoold kids be educated with two working parents ? What is the actual risk ? Should teachers get PUP ?

Like he said about the planned open up in early December - but was ignored.

Only 15k. Looks like you have time and completely do not understand the situation.

If Govt don't follow the NPHET guidelines why should anyone else. There is noacademic or economic justification for putting students and school staff at risk now.

Why risks children’s lives by sending them to school

RIP my first year of college

RTE trying the Foley spin. Young people’s interests at heart? Give me a break. Close the schools.

Was he concerned 😂😂

Anyone know for a fact, teachers are at home for sure doing online teaching?

This is the 'mixed' messaging. Students have to travel to school. Public transport. Parents. Teachers. So multiply their interactions (student) by 48 people per day (average) x 61,000 x three days a week. It's a scary figure. That's some risk analysis!

Seems to be ok....

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This could be their reason if clever and spun well enough to reverse NormaFoleyTD1 reckless one dimensional decision to open schools for 60000 adults .

Ah grand, so send back all the kids sure to school. Be grand!

Perfect time to open schools for 18 year olds then.

So let’s open schools!

Quick to the 'completely safe' schools

thats absolutely impossible!! how comes all ppl travelling via Belfast could bring that to Republic ...

Yet every NCT test centre in the country is open at full capacity 👏🤠🤦🏻‍♂️

Keeping to the script well done

Wake up people, we are being played

see ye in school in monday 3 days a week can’t wait to get covid just to be able to learn my sraith pictiúrs

Why are actors still allowed to act? They are not key workers providing essential services.

And yet NormaFoleyTD1 thinks it’s okay to send vulnerable children with complex needs back into the classroom with multiple staff who are also at risk. I am disgusted and especially disappointed in her overly defensive attitude when lives are at risk.

Blah blah blah

it didn't blow here on the wind

Brilliant.

And they want 60,000 leaving very students to go back into the school environment and community absolutely makes no sense

60-70% more transmissible and yesterday an example of Kent in the UK had social distancing measures in place yet it was ineffective to stopping the spread of the virus. Yet the government still believe that schools are safe for 60,000 students

Probably due to the lovely Irish people who blatantly ignored travelling recommendations and went to and from the UK, even heading to Belfast and bussing it down. They only thought of themselves - thanks for carrying this in, and destroying hundreds and maybe thousands of lives.

This new variant adds 0.7 to R according to UK research. The implication of this needs to be realised rather quickly.

Want to explain why you think it's safe to return to school and run a LC then?

Great news 😑

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