China Coronavirus

[armaghniac]

Quarantine requirements for the 26 counties

The Government has introduced additional short-term restrictions on international travel. Visa-free travel to Ireland for nationals of South Africa and all countries in South America has been suspended. The Department of Justice has temporarily ceased accepting new visa/preclearance applications globally (with limited exemptions).

From 4 February 2021, a legal requirement to home quarantine has been introduced for all passengers arriving in Ireland.  Only very limited categories of passengers can be exempt from this legal requirement.

On 26 February, the Minister of Health designated an additional 13 countries and territories as "Category 2 Countries and Territories". These countries/territories are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The 20 countries below were previously designated as "Category 2 Countries": 

Angola, Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

All passengers arriving into Ireland from these 33 countries and territories or transiting through one of these countries/territories must now complete a full mandatory 14-day period of self-quarantine if they have been in any of these countries/territories in the previous 14 days, even if they receive a negative RT-PCR test result after arriving in the State. This applies even if the passenger remains airside during transit on their journey to Ireland.

For passengers from all other countries, the quarantine period can finish earlier, if the passenger obtains a negative result of a RT-PCR test taken no less than 5 days after arrival in the State.

[Milltown Row2]

New National lockdowns in Europe. Strange when European weather is starting to get warmer, with this being a seasonal virus flu like thingy I'd have thought the numbers would drop. Ah well

[Olly]

At what stage does Bill Gates say enough is enough. In the Truman Show it took at least 3 people to call a halt to it.

[dublin7]

Paris going into lockdown for a month, but keeping their schools open.

Hopefully the people who believe Covid is seasonal can tell us how long this outbreak will last and/or what month they they think it'll go out of srason

[Main Street]

Why is there such a fixation in the claimed science of the need for 14 day quarantine for every intl arrival?
A test on arrival  followed by quarantine  for 4 or 5 days, and if a 2nd test  still shows up negative  - release from quarantine should be the norm..
I read in Iceland that since last August  some 77,000  arrivals have been released from quarantine after 4 or  5 days when their 2nd test shows up negative. Not one of those 77k later came to the attention of the Health officials and this is a place where each positive test in the community is tracked and traced to the nth degree.


Out of the 77,000 arrivals who were 2nd tested after 5 days, less that 200 of them tested positive and had to remain in quarantine for the full 14 days.
https://www.covid.is/data

[Olly]

 

You think Iceland is a real country.

[armaghniac]

Why is there such a fixation in the claimed science of the need for 14 day quarantine for every intl arrival?
A test on arrival  followed by quarantine  for 4 or 5 days, and if a 2nd test  still shows up negative  - release from quarantine should be the norm..
I read in Iceland that since last August  some 77,000  arrivals have been released from quarantine after 4 or  5 days when their 2nd test shows up negative. Not one of those 77k later came to the attention of the Health officials and this is a place where each positive test in the community is tracked and traced to the nth degree.


Out of the 77,000 arrivals who were 2nd tested after 5 days, less that 200 of them tested positive and had to remain in quarantine for the full 14 days.
https://www.covid.is/data

5 days is not long enough, you probably need 7 days to be anyway safe.
As I posted above, people from places without the South African or Brazilian variants can have a test after 5 days.

[Smurfy123]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

[Milltown Row2]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

No smackhead, I'll be front and center, have been since June, I've mentioned it a few times now but your reading skills seem poor enough to have picked up on that.

As for another lockdown, the rest of Europe is going into a 3rd wave of this and National lockdowns in a lot of areas. You'd be losing your shit if you were from those countries. I wonder what season we are heading into now?

[GetOverTheBar]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

[Milltown Row2]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

I think the approach is manageable hospital admissions and low deaths. I haven't heard one specialist say zero covid, they have all said it is here to stay in some form, and its about bringing down the hospital admissions

[GetOverTheBar]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

I think the approach is manageable hospital admissions and low deaths. I haven't heard one specialist say zero covid, they have all said it is here to stay in some form, and its about bringing down the hospital admissions

They won't say it for a good reason. The last thing Belfast needs is an anti lockdown riot (But some kind of protest is imminent soon I feel).

The executive has been following "worst case scenario" since last March, that's what every decision they make is based on since Robin Swanns now infamous warning "disaster of biblical proportions" gaffe.

It's on the way, I believe and hope this time next month we are pretty much back to normal....Pubs/Nightclubs a little later of course.

As you say above, it's all about reducing admissions - we have over 713k first dose vaccines administered yesterday according to DOH twitter account. So that is basically 50% of the country done, assuming there are some 400k under 18s and about 100k (random plucked figure) who won't get the vaccine / won't take the vaccine. There will be literally no reason to keep the country closed much longer, especially with the DUP by all accounts the only party driving the country back to normality (who would have thought...).

Soon there will be 1million people here of 1.8m vaccinated, if the country is not open by then, Belfast will be wrecked.

[Milltown Row2]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

I think the approach is manageable hospital admissions and low deaths. I haven't heard one specialist say zero covid, they have all said it is here to stay in some form, and its about bringing down the hospital admissions

They won't say it for a good reason. The last thing Belfast needs is an anti lockdown riot (But some kind of protest is imminent soon I feel).

The executive has been following "worst case scenario" since last March, that's what every decision they make is based on since Robin Swanns now infamous warning "disaster of biblical proportions" gaffe.

It's on the way, I believe and hope this time next month we are pretty much back to normal....Pubs/Nightclubs a little later of course.

As you say above, it's all about reducing admissions - we have over 713k first dose vaccines administered yesterday according to DOH twitter account. So that is basically 50% of the country done, assuming there are some 400k under 18s and about 100k (random plucked figure) who won't get the vaccine / won't take the vaccine. There will be literally no reason to keep the country closed much longer, especially with the DUP by all accounts the only party driving the country back to normality (who would have thought...).

Soon there will be 1million people here of 1.8m vaccinated, if the country is not open by then, Belfast will be wrecked.

Could 100k who don't get it spoil it for everyone else? Catching the virus and it mutating and so on?

[Louther]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

I think the approach is manageable hospital admissions and low deaths. I haven't heard one specialist say zero covid, they have all said it is here to stay in some form, and its about bringing down the hospital admissions

They won't say it for a good reason. The last thing Belfast needs is an anti lockdown riot (But some kind of protest is imminent soon I feel).

The executive has been following "worst case scenario" since last March, that's what every decision they make is based on since Robin Swanns now infamous warning "disaster of biblical proportions" gaffe.

It's on the way, I believe and hope this time next month we are pretty much back to normal....Pubs/Nightclubs a little later of course.

As you say above, it's all about reducing admissions - we have over 713k first dose vaccines administered yesterday according to DOH twitter account. So that is basically 50% of the country done, assuming there are some 400k under 18s and about 100k (random plucked figure) who won't get the vaccine / won't take the vaccine. There will be literally no reason to keep the country closed much longer, especially with the DUP by all accounts the only party driving the country back to normality (who would have thought...).

Soon there will be 1million people here of 1.8m vaccinated, if the country is not open by then, Belfast will be wrecked.

Will they have to tidy it up first before they wreck it? 

[GetOverTheBar]

We are going at a snails pace for reopening
What's the odds when golf courses open we are in the same position as today?
150 cases per day and 0-2 deaths per day.
I really can't see it getting any better
1 million total vaccinations will be very close to hitting the 1 million target by the end of week 1 in April
A great achievement
Another small lockdown next winter is likely
Be ready for it
Milly and the lads will get a few weeks off towards the end of the year

You are probably right, but it would appear Northern Ireland is persuing a zero covid approach (without the tracing to compliment).

I think the approach is manageable hospital admissions and low deaths. I haven't heard one specialist say zero covid, they have all said it is here to stay in some form, and its about bringing down the hospital admissions

They won't say it for a good reason. The last thing Belfast needs is an anti lockdown riot (But some kind of protest is imminent soon I feel).

The executive has been following "worst case scenario" since last March, that's what every decision they make is based on since Robin Swanns now infamous warning "disaster of biblical proportions" gaffe.

It's on the way, I believe and hope this time next month we are pretty much back to normal....Pubs/Nightclubs a little later of course.

As you say above, it's all about reducing admissions - we have over 713k first dose vaccines administered yesterday according to DOH twitter account. So that is basically 50% of the country done, assuming there are some 400k under 18s and about 100k (random plucked figure) who won't get the vaccine / won't take the vaccine. There will be literally no reason to keep the country closed much longer, especially with the DUP by all accounts the only party driving the country back to normality (who would have thought...).

Soon there will be 1million people here of 1.8m vaccinated, if the country is not open by then, Belfast will be wrecked.

Could 100k who don't get it spoil it for everyone else? Catching the virus and it mutating and so on?

I really hope not. But if we are not perusing a zero covid strategy.....surely not, especially with the DUP looking the party started as soon as possible (to save themselves as a party after the leaked email re: Irish Sea Border).

I duno, where do you stand on that? If they don't want the vaccine, what can you do? 100k cannot stop life returning to normal surely.