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Covid 19 Part XXXIV-249,437 ROI(4,906 deaths) 120,195 NI (2,145 deaths)(01/05)Read OP

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  • #1502
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    No NPHET briefing later on

    Should be abolished now anyway. Pointless.


  • #1503
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,092 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    Sure Ronan Glynn will be front and centre tomorrow anyway

    Going to be interesting reading when the NPHET letter is published


  • #1504
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    No NPHET briefing later on

    Probably because it's just been uncovered that Ronan Glynn is actually a web-designer and had an uncle that worked as a porter in Beaumont.


  • #1505
    Dermot224
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭Dermot224


    BigMo1 wrote: »
    Based on recent performance, he should be on the queue itself.

    Can mods start a separate George Lee thread PLEASE. Sick of reading about him here.


  • #1506
    GeorgeBailey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭GeorgeBailey


    ninebeanrows wrote: »
    A reminder of the madness that occurred last summer.

    We never fully reopened, we never enabled our citizens to live with any sense of reprieve yet these were our figures in late June

    The killer for me is that with all the talk of this year being an outdoor summer they're essentially saying this year will be even more restricted than last year even though we now have vaccines.


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  • #1507
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    It's clear there is not surge or real increase . It actually looks like it's slowly decreasing

    It will be a very interesting what happens now

    I think there could be a bit of a panic and one or two things changed


  • #1508
    CoronaBlocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭CoronaBlocker


    Dermot224 wrote: »
    Can mods start a separate George Lee thread PLEASE. Sick of reading about him here.

    Ahhh goway! We're just filling in the lull. Calm before the storm, like.


  • #1509
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    Great numbers today . Considering mother's day , Cheltenham and people being outdoors without masks on .

    Have today's numbers been released yet? Can't seem to find them anywhere.


  • #1510
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    Kiith wrote: »
    Have today's numbers been released yet? Can't seem to find them anywhere.

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1376569055553945601?s=20


  • #1511
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Kiith wrote: »
    Have today's numbers been released yet? Can't seem to find them anywhere.

    They hadn't been released when poster posted that . Poster posted their praise for tonight's figures too early


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  • #1512
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    Worst surge ever


  • #1513
    mr zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭mr zulu


    One death, 539 cases


  • #1514
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    It's clear there is not surge or real increase . It actually looks like it's slowly decreasing

    It will be a very interesting what happens now

    I think there could be a bit of a panic and one or two things changed

    Despite people out and about and meeting outdoors , despite kids playing , despite packed parks , despite everything the numbers are dropping .
    For gods sake let us out


  • #1515
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Sofa King Great wrote: »
    The positive asymptomatic cases being caught at the walk in centres should be seen as a failure of the contact tracing system rather than a success of the centres

    Our kind of contact tracing only works with a lower number of cases. With case numbers still in the several hundreds, the best it can do is find some additional close contact cases. But it's not an effective tool to control spread, which I thought was supposed to be the original idea of contact tracing.


  • #1516
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    UK facing a challenge vaccinating BAME groups.

    Over-70s of black African heritage in England are 7.4 times more likely not to have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine compared with their white British counterparts, according to analysis by the Office for National Statistics.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/29/study-low-covid-jab-take-up-black-people-england


  • #1517
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    I did most work from my laptop today in the outdoors sunshine, listening to music and only checking Twitter twice for the swabs number

    Then, at around 4pm, I was tempted to switch from music to talk radio to see what they were saying today re: Covid. I stopped myself and kept listening to music

    I'm glad I did and I feel all the better for it


  • #1518
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Polar101 wrote: »
    Our kind of contact tracing only works with a lower number of cases. With case numbers still in the several hundreds, the best it can do is find some additional close contact cases. But it's not an effective tool to control spread, which I thought was supposed to be the original idea of contact tracing.
    It can be, but you need more invasive tracking measures and data capture which GDPR would not allow.


  • #1519
    covidrelease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭covidrelease


    Normal One wrote: »
    Worst surge ever

    Worst new variant ever.


  • #1520
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    New cases: 539
    Denotified cases: 2
    Total cases: 235,078
    New deaths: 1
    Denotified deaths: n/a
    Total deaths: 4,667


    Of the 539 cases notified today
    • Male: 288
    • Female: 249
    • Under 45 years old: 393 (73%)
    • Median age: 32
    Vaccination Numbers - Up to Friday 26th March
    • Total doses: 786,569 (+26,401)
    • First dose: 567,023 (+18,078)
    • Second: 219,546 (+8,323)

    262 in Dublin, 32 cases in Kildare, 30 in Westmeath, 26 in Galway, 21 in Meath, 21 in Offaly and the remaining 147 cases are spread across 20 other counties.

    The counties with the highest rate of infection are Offaly (455.4), Donegal (282) and Dublin (248.9). The counties with the lowest rate of infection are Kerry (31.8), Cork (40.9) and Monaghan (45.6)

    Comparing swabs from last Sunday & Monday

    Last Sunday - 611 from 14,882 - 4.11%

    This Sunday - 603 from 19,619 - 3.07%


    Last Monday - 506 from 12,722 - 3.98%

    Today - 498 from 13,507 - 3.69%


  • #1521
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    Normal One wrote: »
    Worst surge ever

    Now early January.... that was a surge you could be proud of


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  • #1522
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    ShineOn7 wrote: »

    Comparing swabs from last Sunday & Monday

    Last Sunday - 611 from 14,882 - 4.11%

    This Sunday - 603 from 19,619 - 3.07%


    Last Monday - 506 from 12,722 - 3.98%

    Today - 498 from 13,507 - 3.69%


    Looks like someone was trying to get that surging case number up!


  • #1523
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    “There are also discussions underway about allowing people socialise outdoors”

    Absolutely staggering given that i) people are doing it already ii) they’ve spent literally a year telling us how low risk it is to be outside and iii) people need to be given some indication that we are moving forward

    I’m pretty incredulous at the tone-deafness of the government at this stage. Their lack of spine in the face of NPHET’s recommendations is truly unbelievable.


  • #1524
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Normal One wrote: »
    Worst surge ever
    covidrelease wrote: »
    Worst new variant ever.


    Let's see what the rest of the week brings ;)

    We're gas on here - it's either "we're all fúcked!" or "It's over, open everything!" lol

    Hopefully the Wednesday Bump is kind to us and hospital numbers drop further this week


  • #1525
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    The highest county (Offaly) now has an incidence rate FOURTEEN times that of the lowest (Kerry)

    Kerry is going down too averaging 1 case per day in the past 5 days. 1 per day would give an incidence rate of 9 per 100,000, amongst the lowest in Europe. Not far off Zero Covid that.

    Absolutely astonishing that this is still being treated as national issue. Kerry is approaching Level 1 restrictions territory, yet remains in Level 5+


  • #1526
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Let's see what the rest of the week brings ;)

    We're gas on here - it's either "we're all fúcked!" or "It's over, open everything!" lol

    Hopefully the Wednesday Bump is kind to us and hospital numbers drop further this week

    Is anyone here saying open everything? I must have missed that. I see a lot of people saying open up a activities that are outside, and allow travel for outside activities


  • #1527
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    marno21 wrote: »
    The highest county (Offaly) now has an incidence rate FOURTEEN times that of the lowest (Kerry)

    Kerry is going down too averaging 1 case per day in the past 5 days. 1 per day would give an incidence rate of 9 per 100,000, amongst the lowest in Europe. Not far off Zero Covid that.

    Absolutely astonishing that this is still being treated as national issue. Kerry is approaching Level 1 restrictions territory, yet remains in Level 5+

    Cork still going down too, now at 40 per 100,000. As always though those cute hoors from over the western border are outdoing us.......

    All joking aside, great figures down here. Varadker said in the Dail last week that no county was low enough for regional variations. Exactly what would be low enough you have to wonder?

    All that having been said, even here in Cork I'd be happy with opening up outdoor activities for now. Indoor just not a runner. Only question is whether the likes of Offaly needed to stay where they are for now.


  • #1528
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    marno21 wrote: »
    The highest county (Offaly) now has an incidence rate FOURTEEN times that of the lowest (Kerry)

    Kerry is going down too averaging 1 case per day in the past 5 days. 1 per day would give an incidence rate of 9 per 100,000, amongst the lowest in Europe. Not far off Zero Covid that.

    Absolutely astonishing that this is still being treated as national issue. Kerry is approaching Level 1 restrictions territory, yet remains in Level 5+

    Can we send ISAG to Kerry and never hear from them again?


  • #1529
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Not engaging with this process of fact checking your nonsense of taped up benches and overzealous police activity in the UK. So post all the links you want. Your desperation to present a certain narrative, irrespective of the reality, is really quite astonishing. Something more going on there I feel.....

    It’s irrelevant now as there are no longer restrictions on movement in the UK. The ‘stay local’ mantra is guidance only. Indeed Matt Hancock said publicly today you can travel across the country to see friends and family this Easter, as he is.

    It’s how it should be in Ireland. Get people outside so that they don’t go inside. Allow people to travel across the country to see family and friends outside who they might not have seen for months. Restricting people from doing this is evidence of such an incredible loss of proportionality by NPHET and the government

    What a bizarre post. You can "feel" all you like. But you're incorrect - staggeringly so - it would appear.

    And remember you asked for those references- I provided them. And now you oddly think that things didn't happen cos some things have changed in the UK today!

    So I reckon just about everyone would agree that restrictions in the UK have changed today. Your previous argument was that the stay local thing was completely ignored up to this and wasn't policed. I simply showed how your opinion is incorrect!

    But moving ever on... :D

    And as a special Easter bonus - not only were the restrictions previously policed - but even the Queen of Englands favourite grandson got investigated for being a very naughty boy very recently (the 26th of March precisely):pac:

    Apparently he got away with it after claiming he had made the journey to Scotland for "business"

    That he got away with it does not mean that the police didn't actually act to the letter of the law in investigating whether restrictions had been broken.

    https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/queens-grandson-peter-phillips-quizzed-by-police-after-driving-during-lockdown-c-2461230

    And you know what I'm damn sure when the time comes and we have a significant proportion of our own population vaccinated - we too shall Sally forth on business trips or what have you - to far off destinations


  • #1530
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gozunda wrote: »
    What a bizarre post. You can "feel" all you like. But you're incorrect - staggeringly so - it would appear.

    And remember you asked for those references- I provided them. And now their not relevant?????

    And because some things have changed in the UK today - you hold that they didn't happen?

    So I think everyone would agree that restrictions in the UK have changed today. Your previous argument was that the stay local thing was completely ignored up to this and wasn't policed. I showed how your opinion is incorrect.


    But moving ever on... :D

    And as a special Easter bonus - not only were the restrictions previously policed - but even the Queen of Englands favourite grandson got investigated for being a very naughty boy very recently (the 26th of March precisely):pac:

    Apparently he got away with it after claiming he had made the journey to Scotland for "business" ...

    That he got away with it does not mean that the police didn't actually act to the letter of the law in investigating whether restrictions had been broken.

    https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/queens-grandson-peter-phillips-quizzed-by-police-after-driving-during-lockdown-c-2461230

    And you know what I'm damn sure when the time comes and we have a significant proportion of our own population vaccinated - we too shall Sally forth on business trips or what have you - to far off destinations

    Okay


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  • #1531
    darced
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    Wow big surge, scary.


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