Tonight.
Dublin City Centre.
Mmf.
Hic.
Tag Archives: Level 5
From top: Level 5 (arrowed); Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
This afternoon.
Level 4?
Level 4 is for wimps.
Via RTÉ:
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has recommended that the entire country moves to Level 5 for a period of six weeks.
A number of Government sources have confirmed details of the recommendations to RTÉ News.
The advice, contained in a letter sent to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly last night, is due to be discussed at a meeting between Government officials and Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan…
There are currently no plans for a Cabinet meeting today and the Taoiseach is not due back from an EU Council meeting until later today.
However, ministers expect the issue to be decided in the coming days in order to avoid a period of uncertainty.
NPHET recommends move to Level 5 for six weeks (RTÉ)
Earlier: 4 To The Floor
Update:
A second lockdown would be difficult for people, says Tánaiste Leo Varadkar | Read more: https://t.co/fHllnGhi5I pic.twitter.com/9x2Df6uE0s
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 16, 2020
Hmm.
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
Very senior Govt source says we’re “in a very dangerous place” as decision is being represented as “politicians versus doctors” when it “never ever should have been allowed to get to this point of showdown.” They add there are “serious questions and [a] major fallout”. @rtenews
— Paul Cunningham (@RTENewsPaulC) October 5, 2020
If it’s accurate that govt is rejecting public health advice, this will be the decision that encapsulates how private profits come before public health and lives for FF/FG.
People will pay the price with the spread of the coronavirus.
The parties should be made pay a price too.
— Paul Murphy (@paulmurphy_TD) October 5, 2020
This evening.
Some reaction to the decision to discard NPHET advice on bringing the country to Level 5…
Via RTÉ
A senior Government source said we are “in a very dangerous place” as decision is being represented as “politicians versus doctors” when it “never ever should have been allowed to get to this point of showdown”.
The source added that there are “serious questions and [a] major fallout”.
RTÉ also understands that while ministers took NPHET’s concern about the exponential growth of the virus “very seriously”, there was “resistance” to moving to Level 5 “at this time.”
Now Cabinet is set to decide on a proposal to put the entire country on Level 3, with additional enforcement.
A real fallout?
Or bait and switch?
We may never know.
Govt set to veto NPHET advice, adopt Level 3 nationwide (RTÉ)
Earlier: ‘You Were Elected To Lead’
Saturday afternoon.
Wicklow Street, Exchequer Street and Dame Court, Dublin.
Level 3. Soak it up.
Dr. Mary Favier, President of the Irish College of General Practitioners.
“We’re being asked to move to Level 5, an observer might think, because we started this situation with the worst positioned hospital system in the whole wide European area … and now we’re paying the price” @GeorgeLeeRTE on @MorningIreland #Covid19 blog: https://t.co/gDgSsfAq4n pic.twitter.com/1nIxaCxFi6
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 5, 2020
This morning.
On RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, RTE’s Science Correspondent George Lee said there were serious questions for NPHET in light of their reported recommendation that the entire country move to Level 5 of the Covid-19 restrictions.
His appearance followed that of Dr Mary Favier who told journalist Audrey Carville that, if the Covid-19 trajectory continues as it currently stands, Ireland will see 1,500 to 2,000 cases per day in November.
However, Mr Lee said that, a letter from NPHET last Thursday shows that NPHET, at that point did not support a move to Level 3 nationally – nevermind the reported move to Level 5.
He also pointed that there are, as of 8am this morning, 141 patients with Covid in hospitals, 21 of whom are in ICU beds and that there are only 39 ICU beds currently available.