Party leaders meet today to discuss six week lockdown


The leaders of the three coalition parties will meet later today to discuss placing the country back into a six week lockdown.
NPHET has recommended Level 5 restrictions for the entire country.
1,000 new cases of Covid-19 and three more deaths were confirmed yesterday.
Minister of State for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, says he’ll support whatever the Government decides but the current measures are already restrictive:

The Irish Medical Organisation says the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases is putting health services under extreme pressure.
GPs are concerned people who know they’re contacts or are waiting for tests are not self-isolating.
Chair of the IMO’s GP Committee Dr Denis McCauley, says that has to change:

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