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Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

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  • #4682
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,867 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Maybe St. Patrick's Day parades will go ahead behind closed doors?


  • #4683
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    I do check it daily. You must have looked at Iran for that 1k+ figure.

    That was today for Iran, not yesterday though.


  • #4684
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Maybe St. Patrick's Day parades will go ahead behind closed doors?

    :D:D !!!


  • #4685
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    worldometer, you need to check it daily, they don't store by-country stats frmo previous days

    Would be nice if they provided raw data for export.


  • #4686
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Testing lab overloaded?
    Did they give the number of -ve results?

    Very similar numbers 2 days in a row could well mean lab/testing capability at capacity rather than a plateau in cases.


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  • #4687
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    BLIZZARD7 wrote: »
    No but given they arent counting asymptomatic cases and the numbers are still going up (deaths ever increasing) then I wouldn't call the numbers optimistic just yet...


    The data on those who do not have symptoms is available: 1060 positive and in quarantine

    Official table: 3916 total positives - 2394 with symptoms and hospitalised - 462 in intensive care = 1060 positive and in quarantine



    http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/documents/20182/1221364/Dati+Riepilogo+Nazionale+6marzo2020/6fb1c948-b21c-4cfd-9343-181c147df679


  • #4688
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Don't the upcoming allowed 'mass' gatherings fly in the face of the 'containment' phase I've been listening to for the past few weeks?

    Never mind me mentioning the fact that hundreds/thousands of people from Europe's covid-19 hotspot are wandering all over Dublin tonight/across the weekend.
    What was the point in cancelling the match.

    Dr. Varadkar could maybe step down from playing at 'leader'* of the country and help the cause instead of asking for high risk category retired doctors/nurses to step in when it gets out of hand.
    His two hands have to be better use doing that than making error after error.

    *Yes, I know he's acting leader but this is taking the piss.


  • #4689
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    That was today for Iran, not yesterday though.

    Fair, I've no idea where he got that figure from so.

    Could well be that Italy is at maximum current testing ability.


  • #4690
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Perhaps they have the stronger strain ?

    Didn't our cases come from Italy? So would we end up with the stronger strain of the virus as well?


  • #4691
    lalababa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭lalababa


    Breaking news, 7 new cases in Tralee general.


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  • #4692
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    I suppose the Paddy's Day foot & mouth cancellation was because of the perceived threat to the agriculture industry. So business was at stake.
    secman wrote: »
    2001 Paddy's Festival was cancelled and rescheduled on the June bank holiday weekend and it was even better due to better weather. But that was done to prevent Irish cattle picking up a virus , the foot and mouth one..but hey this virus only affects us mere humans so NO cancellation this time.

    I wish to fook people would stop commenting about farming related issues when they know sweet fook all about farming.

    Foot and mouth can have devastating consequences and it isn't just some trite shyte that cows matter more to the government, or more specifically FG/FF, than people.

    Britain a country way less dependent on the agri sector cancelled lots of events due to foot and mouth.
    In 2001 they cancelled the end of the British Rally championship, Chelthenham races were cancelled.
    The general election was delayed by a month.

    And why ?

    Well here is a snippet of just how devastating it is to animals.
    In Britain they culled over 6 million cows and sheep.
    They were killing 80,000 - 93,000 animals per week with the help of the army.

    Just imagine if it had take hold here and how black the sky would be with the fires .

    This is the price of foot and mouth disease.

    foot-and-mouth-burning-261268.jpg

    carcasses-of-cattle-infected-in-the-foot-and-mouth-disease-epidemic-are-prepared-for-burning-prestwick-hall-farm-ponteland-newcastle-britain-shutterstock-editorial-333242g.jpg

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #4693
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    secman wrote: »
    It was done very successfully in 2001, moved it to June bank holiday weekend... but that was to protect cattle.....

    4 legs good, 2 legs bad


  • #4694
    Cuckoo7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 235 ✭✭Cuckoo7


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Italian culture like kissing greetings certainly contributes I would imagine.

    Russians kiss each other thrice and only”have” 7 cases


  • #4695
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,993 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Yeah so should you. Most people recover from this just fine. It's not the end of the human race.

    This thread gets more ridiculous by the day.

    Stock markets are falling, 26 medical personnel have died in China, Cruise ships are stranded at sea, the IMF and ECB have just released the first tranche of billions in stimulus, an airline has gone out of business, entire cities have been put under lockdown, cities in the US have declared a state of emergency, Italy's health system is so overloaded they are calling for help from the private sector, and I could go on, and on, but people here who are following and commenting on all this real world stuff are ridiculous?

    You should go work for the HSE or government, you have a mindset that would fit in perfectly.


  • #4696
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Absolutely extraordinary that the plug isn't being pulled on Paddy's day parades at this juncture.

    Words fail sometimes.
    And worse, he takes a bitchy sideswipe at local communities cancelling them off their own bat!


  • #4697
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    Simon Harris just said we will see more cases in Ireland and you would think a Taoiseach who used to be a doctor would be closing down events. Why the Fuuck is he not doing this and why are the closures on Parnell St not being mentioned.


  • #4698
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,867 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    lalababa wrote: »
    Breaking news, 7 new cases in Tralee general.

    Hmmmm.....source?


  • #4699
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    The Paddy's Day thing stinks of Vintners and various other interest groups.

    Crazy to hold it.


  • #4700
    TTLF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭TTLF
    save the trouble and jazz it up


    will germany be doing another update today?


  • #4701
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    lalababa wrote: »
    Breaking news, 7 new cases in Tralee general.

    Link? Source?


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  • #4702
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    TTLF wrote: »
    will germany be doing another update today?

    Yes, just before midnight.


  • #4703
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I agree with the acting Taoiseach fully. Even the public health professionals on TV every night were saying setting off an economic bomb would hurt more people indirectly than the virus itself.

    Yes I understand about vulnerable groups, senior citizens and those with underlying conditions, but its far better that those people limit their own interaction with general population than the whole Country stop normal life. For St Patricks week each event needs to be taken on its merits and considered prudent or not, not a blanket ban.

    There won't be an economic bomb cancelling Paddy's Day. There's a run on loo paper in the us, Canada and Australia. What does that tell you? Many are stock piling and preparing. Large number of tourists coming to Ireland spending loads of money is hopeful and wishful thinking. Large crowds gathering had to be stopped to slow down the spread of this disease or the health service will collapse.


  • #4704
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    lalababa wrote: »
    Breaking news, 7 new cases in Tralee general.
    Source?


  • #4705
    polydactyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭polydactyl


    Testing everyone who walks through the door of ED is not as easy as it sounds. Each person needs to be assessed by a nurse and or doctor who need a gown, gloves, face mask, visor etc etc.....we don’t have enough in the hospitals!!!! 6 days in and they are under lock and key because ppl kept taking them..... and we can’t get enough in!


  • #4706
    ellejay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭ellejay


    SusanC10 wrote: »
    That's slightly higher than yesterday. Could it be plateauing there ?

    I seriously doubt it, they're just not testing as many.
    A friend working in a University in Florence has sore throat and sniffles, they refuse to test him.


  • #4707
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,266 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    Stepaside parade has been cancelled. Think there’s going to be a back track on the Dublin one within days. Absolute madness. All about money, tourism and the economy with no thought to public health.

    These organisers seems to be cancelling parades without even listening to Govt or medical advice (which seems a bizarre way of going about things).


  • #4708
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Perhaps they have the stronger strain ?
    Doesn't seem so.
    "At the base of this (genetic) lineage lies the sample Germany/BavPat1/2020. This was "patient 1" in Bavaria who was infected by a business colleague visiting from China. "
    https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1235104921260675072


  • #4709
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    ellejay wrote: »
    I seriously doubt it, they're just not testing as many.
    A friend working in a University in Florence has sore throat and sniffles, they refuse to test him.


    4000 tests were done today, which found 620 positives https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/

    tamponi giornalieri = tests done in a day


  • #4710
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,444 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Absolutely extraordinary that the plug isn't being pulled on Paddy's day parades at this juncture.

    Words fail sometimes.

    Business interest groups don't want to see the cash cow of Paddy's Day put on the back burner. We shut down every parade and any large gatherings in 2001 for the foot and mouth which was an animal disease. But for a readily infectious and deadly human disease?? Nah it's grand.


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  • #4711
    BLIZZARD7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Strazdas wrote: »
    These organisers seems to be cancelling parades without even listening to Govt or medical advice (which seems a bizarre way of going about things).

    Maybe people are realising that the govt and medical advice is going against that of every other country with an outbreak and the WHO? And bloody common sense maybe...


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