Stephen Donnelly also said the Government is not considering extending the Covid vaccine passes to any other areas.
Mr Donnelly acknowledged that with reducing social contacts it is not as simple as "picking one individual thing" and saying "this can or cannot happen".Separately, he said while Covid-19 vaccination passes make things safer they would not be brought in to other areas.People need to adjust their behaviour in order to turn around Covid-19 infection rates, according to the Covid advisor to the Irish College of GPs.
She said we need to look at how to manage social interactions and gatherings "and just try and do less in the next week or two". There were 2,975 new cases of Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health yesterday The Chief Medical Officer said he understands that people have "become tired" of the pandemic, but Dr Tony Holohan said compliance with public health measures is not "quite at the level" that it needs to be.
The INTO representative for Kerry and Limerick says teachers are hoping the roll-out of antigen testing will protect children a little bit more.
Personally I am delighted to be back to face to face meetings etc but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that working from home is safer!
Only tool in the Armoury is lockdown and work from home
What are you thinking of doing then?
NPHET saying different
My workplace about 90% can do their job from home (ironically not including me) ut you are forcing them in for no good reason (public institution). Why not save them the commute & added traffic for everyone else whilst lowering the risk in that building? Common sense stuff imo
People in real jobs don't work from home
Any evidence that this is a main driver of infection right now? Are we going to give it 2 weeks to see if this works then? With exponential growth as it is, 2 weeks could be too late.
If stephen Donnelly says they are not doing something, they are. Always. The man can’t help himself.
Minister Stephen Donnelly also said the Government is not considering extending the Covid vaccine passes to any other areas