Taoiseach Micheál Martin has mentioned he can not give a assure that the following part of reopening will start as deliberate on October twenty second.
Talking outdoors Authorities buildings, Mr Martin mentioned “I can’t assure [that] proper now,” when requested concerning the subsequent reopening date. “No selections have been made.”
“There was a gathering of senior officers this morning chaired by my Secretary Basic. The presentation by deputy chief medical officer was a severe one. The trajectory of the illness has taken a improper flip. There was a sudden improve within the final week of case numbers. I feel we’re over 2,000 case numbers right this moment.
“They wish to see extra information. They wish to analyse this a bit extra. And so we’re going to mirror on it. And we are going to have interaction with the general public well being authorities and the HSE within the lead as much as subsequent week and we are going to make a last determination nearer to that date.
“Suffice to say that it’s crucial that the general public at massive realise that Covid has not gone away, that the variant is a harmful one.
“Numbers are larger in hospitals than we wish them to be, over 400 now. They’re having an affect on the hospital system.”
He urged those that haven’t gotten a vaccine to get one.
“That is an alert to all of us to knuckle down in opposition to this virus as a result of it hasn’t gone away.”
The Taoiseach’s message comes on the identical that 2,066 new circumstances of the virus had been reported together with 26 deaths within the final seven days.
Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn earlier mentioned “there are nonetheless just below 300,000 adults who haven’t come ahead for vaccination and an additional 70,000 individuals have acquired only one dose of a two-dose schedule”.