The arrival of South African, Brazilian and Nigerian variants has heaped further pressure on the Government to get the proposed mandatory hotel quarantine regime up and running as quickly as possible. Travel and the absence of mandatory restrictions taught lessons in the pandemic’s first year as the more infectious UK strain made the third wave the most devastating.
“Not only is it important we don’t reseed the country with new viruses that could cause a fourth wave, but the variants we may introduce next time around may also threaten our vaccine programme, and that could just make our whole control strategy even more difficult,” he said.Stephen Donnelly The State is increasing capacity on genome sequencing to be able to identify and detect new variants. Contact tracing will be strengthened, to investigate retrospectively and to include locations of infections. Rapid antigen testing is likely to be used in new situations to identify and prevent the spread of asymptomatic infections.
The flu needs a new marketing team, it must be feeling so left out since it was cancelled by the new kid on the block! With it's daily variants and the vaccine Oscars..new 'warp speed' one's to save humanity by the day no less! This being alive thing is so dangerous.
When will you stop giving a voice to ISAG ? Have you nobody else to interview but Scally & other ISAG members?
Its a scam to bring in bio permits
If you cannot see that this is all lies at this point, there’s no hope
Resigned to never go to selecaoportugal or spain resort ever again hearing rtetwip trying to force vaccination data on passports. Can live without visiting EU lapdog countries that enable rights erosion. Bye bye MalagaAirport and many others!!!
I've been saying this all weekend about the new variants.
I’m never gonna get my wife’s grandmother’s birth certificate until Ireland gets COVID under control. Selfishly, please, get it together!