CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)OP upd 28/03

owlbethere · 27-03-2020 09:14PM

racso1975 wrote: »

303 new and 3 dead. Rip

God, ☹️ rip

The new testing guidelines was due to target and catch more people. Still a scary jump all the same. I suppose the Covid-19 getting into nursing homes would probably add to the rise.

otnomart · 27-03-2020 09:14PM

Both Belgium and France have just extended their lockdown till 15 April.
Note: theirs is a strict lockdown same as Spain and Italy: only food shops and chemists are open.

hotmail.com · 27-03-2020 09:15PM

Bryan Dobson presenting the bulletin for RTE One at 8.28 PM.

bekker · 27-03-2020 09:15PM

Wibbs wrote: »

I'm with you 100% save for the bold part.

"Sieg Heil! mein Führer!"

obi604 · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

hotmail.com wrote: »

Bryan Dobson presenting the bulletin for RTE One at 8.28 PM.

Great news

dan786 · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1243628445772496897?s=20

ZX7R · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

pjohnson wrote: »

AFAIK these stayed open in lockdown anyway?

Except for the fast-food outlets

Ninthlife · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

LILT

TOTALLY TROPICAL TAAASTE, PINEAPPLE AND GRAPEFRUIT

eagle eye · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

pjohnson wrote:

They stopped???

I had it about 3 years ago. I thought it was long gone before then.

shesty · 27-03-2020 09:16PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

Some people are not everyone. I went shopping on Wednesday and traffic on roads looked pretty normal. Numerous people out walking. Lidl seemed more busy than a normal Wednesday.

Everything isn't shut here in Roscommon. Post office, banks, independent fast food places, bakeries, farm supplies, veterinaries in my town are all open as well as supermarkets, pharmacies, filling stations. The houses where mentally ill patients are open and operating as usual on my street.

Based on what happened in China three.

I am in Dublin North and they are all closed.Drove around 3 large towns today, only things open were shops and some bigger independent ones,and pharmacies (and randomly, a Eurogiant).All coffee shops, bakeries, restaurants etc were closed (I was trying to desperately to find a cup of coffee as part of my trip!!!).Traffic is extremely light....I was out to get a prescription this evening and happened to catch the AA traffic update at 5pm...rush hour....there was no update. Everything very light and what there was was moving fine.

It is being taken very seriously up here.Possibly your comments should be addressed at a more local level.

podgeandrodge · 27-03-2020 09:17PM

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

There will be no Govt. announcement this evening. Maybe on Monday if there is a further steep rise in ICU cases/deaths over the weekend.

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

No there isn`t, not tonight anyway.

Still so sure?

sideswipe · 27-03-2020 09:17PM

Any loss of live is bad but there is something extra sad about someone going to work to help others only to catch this damn virus and die themselves.
Never have I appreciated our frontline health staff as much, in fact I’ve taken them for granted. I won’t in future.
RIP.

kilkenny31 · 27-03-2020 09:17PM

Seeing that's its Coveney involved and the fact that they told Irish people on short term visas in the states to come back I'd say this briefing will be more travel restrictions. Maybe banning flights coming in.

owlbethere · 27-03-2020 09:17PM

What time is leo talking at

LRNM · 27-03-2020 09:17PM

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27-03-2020 09:18PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

take your anti-American racism elsewhere please.

Oh lighten up Batman.

iwillyeah1234 · 27-03-2020 09:18PM

"The Irish Times has learned that the nurse worked in the east of the country and their death marks the first of a healthcare worker in the State during the Covid-19 pandemic."

good god.. that's rough.

The NHS are reporting about 25% of their staff are currently knocked out of circulation. And the peak wave hasn't even hit Britain yet.

The pattern seems to be - as the tsunami starts to hit , more and more medical staff get knocked into isolation , which means the tsunami wave gets ever steeper - which is pretty much what happened in Italy. Hence the British doing that "NHS Volunteers" thing, with 700k signed up now , thus freeing up community care nurses to go into hospitals or the "frontline" ( it literally is like fighting a war.. )

New Home · 27-03-2020 09:18PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think that's fair. We can know that a lockdown is necessary and also be terrified of it.
What lockdown means for you may have a different meaning for someone else. People who are in abusive relationships, children in abusive homes, those who are mentally unwell, impoverished living conditions.
Rationally I will agree with whatever the Government puts in place but I will still be scared and will understand how difficult it could be for many.

Because those categories of people only exist in Ireland and not in any of the other countries where an actual, proper lockdown in in place? Or because they are immune to the virus or to spreading it? Of course it's difficult. Of course it's terrifying. But the alternative is much, much, much worse. It's literally deadly.

Mental Mickey · 27-03-2020 09:19PM

owlbethere wrote: »

What time is leo talking at

8.30. Read a few posts back

Spanish Eyes · 27-03-2020 09:20PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

that was one hell of a hammer blow for the British public today - prime minister, health minister AND the chief of the NHS all taken out in one day.

you can't dress this up - it must be rampant in the upper echelons of British government.

Leo and Coveney - but Coveney especially - are way too smart to let that happen to them.

I hope you are right, but I do think they have contingency plans. It was the UK Chief Medical Officer who is ill also, the equivalent of our Doc Holohan.

That Simon Harris is very good of late, and probably always was, but was hammered from all sides about A and E and no beds etc. There's none of that now. AND he suffers from Crohns which is a risk factor.

I hope they all stay well.

dougm1970 · 27-03-2020 09:20PM

so...usa first to top 100,000 confirmed cases just there.

Coyote · 27-03-2020 09:20PM

Number updated to match today's report

remember the 500 ICU beds a lot of them are in use already just not for Covid19

I added in charts for all 3 rate of growth, i'm still working on them so forgive any mistakes

No Change in number

Slow Change

Big Drop in numbers

again with all of this i'm just trying to show people the 14 day delay in an change in how we deal with this
if you wait till we are overloaded it's too late
everyone has to make up there own mind but at least look at the maths

3 weeks no change 44K
3 weeks slow change 29K
3 weeks big drop 9K

1 month no change 151K
1 month slow change 56K
1 month big drop 11K

intresting visualization of covid
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

you need to decide what you do today to affect 3 weeks from now

Boggles · 27-03-2020 09:21PM

I was joking about Lilt, I seemed to have got a lot of people hopes up.

owlbethere · 27-03-2020 09:21PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

"The Irish Times has learned that the nurse worked in the east of the country and their death marks the first of a healthcare worker in the State during the Covid-19 pandemic."

good god.. that's rough.

The NHS are reporting about 25% of their staff are currently knocked out of circulation. And the peak wave hasn't even hit Britain yet.

The pattern seems to be - as the tsunami starts to hit , more and more medical staff get knocked into isolation , which means the tsunami wave gets ever steeper - which is pretty much what happened in Italy. Hence the British doing that "NHS Volunteers" thing, with 700k signed up now , thus freeing up community care nurses to go into hospitals or the "frontline" ( it literally is like fighting a war.. )

So sad

redarmy · 27-03-2020 09:21PM

The President has signed the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act into law, and issued another statement alongside it: #covid19ireland

AllGunsBlazing · 27-03-2020 09:21PM

One last post before the forum crashes......

otnomart · 27-03-2020 09:21PM

From the Guardian.
A letter from Italy: this is what we know about your future
An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/a-letter-to-the-uk-from-italy-this-is-what-we-know-about-your-future

Shn99 · 27-03-2020 09:22PM

What are we expecting at this conference?

iwillyeah1234 · 27-03-2020 09:22PM

"The most extreme example we cited was over 7 hours for a crew in Tralee."

that should not be happening. and it's downright dangerous to an extreme.

Westernyelp · 27-03-2020 09:22PM

Boggles wrote: »

I was joking about Lilt, I seemed to have got a lot of people hopes up.

You shouldn't joke about stuff like that

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CoVid19 Part XI - 2,615 in ROI (46 deaths) 410 in NI (21 deaths)(29/03)OP upd 28/03