Coronavirus / Ireland to impose nationwide COVID-19 restrictions

Ireland will impose "decisive" nationwide COVID-19 restrictions from Monday amid rising cases in the country, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said. Ireland's coronavirus cases per 1,00,000 people rose to 232 in the past 14 days, the 12th highest rate among the 31 countries monitored by the European CDC. Ireland has reported 48,678 coronavirus cases and 1,849 COVID-19 deaths.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Oct 19, 2020, 08:34 AM
Dublin: Ireland will bring in "decisive" nationwide Covid-19 restrictions on Monday but will stop short of reintroducing the kind of lockdown imposed earlier this year, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said on Friday.

"The government will act tomorrow, the action will be decisive and it will be nationwide action," Harris, who was the health minister during one of Europe's strictest lockdowns from the end of March to mid-May, told national broadcaster RTE.

"Tomorrow we will have to bring in more restrictions. Level 3 has not worked in terms of getting the virus to where it needs to get to ... I don't want to be pedantic about the phrase lockdown but I don't think that's exactly where we're going but there will certainly be more restrictions."