Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) Read warnings in OP

10-03-2020 12:01AM

Oooh Coveney didn't like the talk of quarantining to China's standards there! But at least he said the government won't shy away from extreme measures if necessary.

Dots1982 · 10-03-2020 12:01AM

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

Jinglejangle69 · 10-03-2020 12:02AM

Larbre34 wrote: »

No elderly or vulnerable relatives? Any friends at all?

I feel sorry for you.

If they are that worried they should self isolate.

Use common sense.

RandomName2 · 10-03-2020 12:02AM

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

1. Stop flights from certain countries / eventually close all airports.

If they had just done this across Europe from the beginning none of the rest would have had to be done (and Italy wouldn't currently have 463 fatalities and rising)

Mervyn Skidmore · 10-03-2020 12:02AM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

did he say outside drinking?

Bags of cans for everyone.

frillyleaf · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

Strazdas wrote: »

Population of Wuhan city is 11m people.

One of the guests on the show reckons we need 5000 tracers to the size of our population

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Sneezing in to your elbow is idiotic, your aim is going to be all over the shop.

No, it should help it not go all over the shop, just on your inner elbow. Important to help shop workers, jokes aside.

normanoffside · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

https://twitter.com/TomBoy1966/status/1236768560229253120

wakka12 · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

71 countries reported new cases today

4068ac1elhodqr · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

citysights wrote: »

What are the phases

State staged policy to handle the crisis, most countries will run from 1-4 (or 5).

As to be expected, and entirely normal damage control. Most of Europe is only at stage 1 (containment), moving slowly into (delay) phase.

Stage 4 is full on active damage mitigation during peak caseloads, you'll want to save the toilet rolls for that one.

radiotrickster · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

RandomName2 wrote: »

The testing is still predominantly dependent on people coming forward to be tested, and then they are only tested if they are deemed to have been at risk of coming into contact with the virus.

I know a couple of people working in healthcare (different hospitals). They said that all suspected flu cases are also treated as suspected coronavirus until proven otherwise. So if you turn up with flu symptoms, you’re isolated and tested anyway.

pjohnson · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Oooh Coveney didn't like the talk of quarantining to China's standards there! But at least he said the government won't shy away from extreme measures if necessary.

As he baulks at the very idea of it :pac:

Beanybabog · 10-03-2020 12:03AM

Can someone explain to me how the measures will work, is it only to slow down the virus? I understand our health care system will
Cope better if it’s all spread out, and more people will survive, but are we still looking at the same number of cases just over a longer time period?

Yester · 10-03-2020 12:04AM

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Bags of cans for everyone.

Yes because you can only get Corona from bottles.

Atlantic Dawn · 10-03-2020 12:04AM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

It's where it started, rumoured to be from illegal Chinese migrants working in textile industry so hidden initially by crooked business people.

Rob A. Bank · 10-03-2020 12:04AM

jarvis wrote: »

Had anyone got a case timeline for Italy? Day by day type thing?

Mouse over the graphs and bar charts to get the daily figures

gabeeg · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

Coveney looks like he is in shock on Claire Byrne. It looks like the government got a serious wake up call at the briefing today.

The moves today are really encouraging. They will save lives and it looks like it has shaken a lot of people out of their overconfidence.

I’m so glad efforts have ramped up. This will slow the spread and save lives compared to the previous efforts.

Next steps:
1. Stop flights from certain countries / eventually close all airports.
2. Delay the Leaving Cert and college exams until later in summer.
3. Build capacity and ruthlessly prioritise medical resources.
4. Look at closing restaurants, pubs, churches, schools etc and just hunker down.

It’ll take some time for it to get to the levels where those things happen but they are likely to end up happening.

Overall though so glad that they have reacted to the briefing.

A lot of time has been lost though

wakka12 · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

Iguess they are quite socially and economically distinct areas, almost like two separate countries. Maybe thats why it didnt spread as fast as one would expect. I think it is believed to began in Milan because the fashion week was attended by many Chinese travellers

BorneTobyWilde · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Think I'll go live in a car bubble for next two months

Gods Gift · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Bags of cans for everyone.

20 people getting pissed under 1 umbrella.

RandomName2 · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

Southern Italy is further away from the initial outbreak in the Lombardy region than northern Italy.

Larbre34 · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Well lads being able to marshal a shutdown like that in China is a non starter.

Our total Police, Police Reserve, Defence Forces, Reserve DF and Civil Defence is 30,000 bodies, assuming they're all fit and well. So unless they're going to give baseball bats to the park rangers and the driving testers I don't see the Irish having the inherent discipline for a national quarantine.

Poor_old_gill · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Why is the virus only really badly affecting northern Italy as opposed to southern italy?

All northern parts/north sides are more aggressive and the spread of viruses is no exception

Jinglejangle69 · 10-03-2020 12:05AM

pjohnson wrote: »

As he baulks at the very idea of it :pac:

Nice to get digs in ay.

What are you doing to represent and help the country?

Sneering behind your phone.

little bess · 10-03-2020 12:06AM

I’ve been simultaneously reading this thread and world war z for the last two nights - freaking myself out here

Funsterdelux · 10-03-2020 12:06AM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Have people here closed their homes to visitors ?

Yeah, dont come round no more

Larbre34 · 10-03-2020 12:06AM

wakka12 wrote: »

Iguess they are quite socially and economically distinct areas, almost like two separate countries. Maybe thats why it didnt spread as fast as one would expect. I think it is believed to began in Milan because the fashion week was attended by many Chinese travellers

Handbags and shoes killed us all.

jay0109 · 10-03-2020 12:06AM

Why us it Coveney and not Harris on TV tonight!

Padre_Pio · 10-03-2020 12:06AM

wakka12 wrote: »

Iguess they are quite socially and economically distinct areas, almost like two separate countries. Maybe thats why it didnt spread as fast as one would expect. I think it is believed to began in Milan because the fashion week was attended by many Chinese travellers

Large concentration of cities too, Milan, Florence, Venice, Bologna, Turin, lots of airports, lots of tourism this time of year for skiing?

billybonkers · 10-03-2020 12:07AM

Cheltenham starts tomorrow and there is a confirmed case there....

Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) *Read warnings in OP*

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Coronavirus Part V - 34 cases in ROI, 16 in NI (as of 10 March) Read warnings in OP