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Ireland to impose 5km travel limit in strict new Covid lockdown:
Ireland is to close much of its economy and society in a second Covid-19 lockdown that imposes some of the severest restrictions in Europe.
Non-essential shops will close and people are asked to stay at home, with a 5km (3 mile) travel limit for exercise, to curb surging infection rates, the government announced on Monday evening.
From midnight on Wednesday the country will move to its highest lockdown tier for six weeks. Visits to private homes or gardens will not be permitted and there are to be no gatherings except for tightly controlled weddings and funerals.
A graduated fine system for those who breach the 5km travel limit – with exceptions for work and other purposes deemed essential – will be announced later this week. People who live alone or are parenting alone can pair with one other household as part of a support bubble. Two households can meet outdoors within the travel limit. Public transport will operate at 25% capacity.
Non-essential retail will close along with barbers' shops, beauty salons, gyms, leisure centres and cultural amenities. Pubs, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to serve takeout meals only, a devastating blow to an already weakened hospitality sector.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedGreen on Sunday October 25 2020, @04:15PM (1 child)
"Can we discuss why the numbers are so different in the US? Consider 26,058 cases with 1,848 deaths in NJ vs. 48,387 cases with 588 in ND?"
I would think it is due to the idea in the NY and NJ area at the start of it in the spring it got into the seniors homes. They drop like flies in them places we have next to nothing for the disease here it is a non event really. Except at the start where the selfish disease spreading bastard that started it by still having to go on their vacation when the planes were flying empty in Europe. They worked in a seniors home or were a family member of someone there where they spread it. When it was all over and done with, close to 60 people were dead in that large building. All of them seniors, the other five or six who have died since then in that time were seniors outside of that one institution who had the vast majority of the deaths. Now we get a case or two a week all due to travellers going outside of our area coming back. The selfish cocksuckers are still getting on planes and flying into disease infested areas and coming back sick. At least we are not getting any community transmission due to it yet, hopefully our luck continues to hold.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday October 26 2020, @01:29AM
Yes, governors of tri-state area killed a lot of seniors when they ordered nursing homes to accept covid patients, but nevertheless they count for roughly 30% of the dead. It does not explain 6-7 times lower ND death rate.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.