Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

New Home wrote: »

Lots of the tracing centres were never made operational, people who had signed up were never called.

This is so true. Friend of mine and anther person I know off came home from Australia and Canada. My friend who is fully qualified nurse for years was put on administration work part time and the lady who came home from Canada who also a nurse never got called. She has returned to Canada.

DeanAustin wrote: »

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I had a pain in my hoop listening to how great Jacinda Ardern was for ridding NZ of Covid. Guess what? It came back and they had to lock down Auckland again.

Think they have stamped it out again now.
I'm not getting into all the done to death reasons "we are not NZ" etc etc and I accept that, but overall they are in a better situation than we are IMO. Claiming they failed/wasted their time trying to eradicate Covid-19 is not correct.

I'm posting this here as not sure where else to post and hopefully somebody has some idea of the procedure. A family member received notification that they were a positive case yesterday morning, the 27th, after developing symptoms last Thursday. The family doctor rang with the news and said that as we had been in contact with the individual last Tuesday for greater than 15 mins that we are a close contact. We have heard absolutely nothing from the HSE/contact tracing people and the confirmed case has yet to give them a list of people that may have affected as they haven't been contacted yet either.

We haven't been official advice so not sure where we stand. I presume we will have to be tested but when does the 14 days of isolation start for us, is it from the last time we were in contact with the individual, the day the test was performed on them or from yesterday when they received the results? My workplace are under the impression that I will be back to work next Tuesday as it will be 14 days since I was in contact with the individual

Boots234 wrote: »

I'm posting this here as not sure where else to post and hopefully somebody has some idea of the procedure. A family member received notification that they were a positive case yesterday morning, the 27th, after developing symptoms last Thursday. The family doctor rang with the news and said that as we had been in contact with the individual last Tuesday for greater than 15 mins that we are a close contact. We have heard absolutely nothing from the HSE/contact tracing people and the confirmed case has yet to give them a list of people that may have affected as they haven't been contacted yet either.

We haven't been official advice so not sure where we stand. I presume we will have to be tested but when does the 14 days of isolation start for us, is it from the last time we were in contact with the individual, the day the test was performed on them or from yesterday when they received the results? My workplace are under the impression that I will be back to work next Tuesday as it will be 14 days since I was in contact with the individual

It’s from date of last contact.

fly_agaric wrote: »

Think they have stamped it out again now.
I'm not getting into all the done to death reasons "we are not NZ" etc etc and I accept that, but overall they are in a better situation than we are IMO. Claiming they failed/wasted their time trying to eradicate Covid-19 is not correct.

I'm not saying they wasted their time. But it'll be back again in New Zealand. It's inevitable. And to stamp out a handful of cases, they'll need to lockdown again. How long do you keep doing that for? Years? Decades?

According to worldometers, they still have 59 active cases. Small but they haven't eradicated it.

manofwisdom wrote: »

Why all this media talk about Galway joining Dublin and Donegal in level 3? Things might get worse but Galway county a population of 260k had 142 cases in the last 2 weeks and as of 8pm had 1 person with Covid in hospital isn't the type of figures for level 3?

There's a few that don't make sense. Even yesterday Donnelly talking up the chances of wicklow going to level 3. Wicklows 14 day incidence reduced in the last week and is below national average

Cases 390 no deaths today.

Benimar wrote: »

390 cases, no deaths.

Definite backlog from last week so, question is how big is it?

not great, not terrible.

stephenjmcd wrote: »

There's a few that don't make sense. Even yesterday Donnelly talking up the chances of wicklow going to level 3. Wicklows 14 day incidence reduced in the last week and is below national average

Just separate bray from wicklow and include bray in Dublin's level 3.

I believe Bray has half of wicklows cases on 1/5 of the population.

209 new cases in Dublin.

Cork 27
Donegal 22
Galway 21
Kildare 14
Monaghan 14
Roscommon 7
Tipperary 7
Waterford 7
Wexford 7
Limerick 6
Longford 6
Laois, Meath, Offaly, Sligo - 5 each.

fritzelly wrote: »

Is there not enough of these stories on the news without the press briefing having them as well

No harm in reinforcing the message tbh, might get some people to stop acting the bollocks.

Shin