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Galway Bay fm press room – It will be tomorrow night at the earliest before we know if the government will approve a second blockade.
Yesterday’s long meetings ended with no agreement on whether or not to implement the NPHET tips.
A record number of new cases was announced yesterday at 1,276.
There are 278 cases in Dublin, 149 in Cork, 108 in Meath, 107 in Galway, 80 in Wexford and the remaining cases are in another 21 counties.
After more than eight hours of meetings yesterday, high-ranking ministers failed to reach a decision on whether the entire country should move to level five restrictions.
The medical director, Dr. Tony Holohan, proposed a second blockade to the leaders of the three government parties together with the ministers of health, finance and public spending.
HSE chief Paul Reid gave an update on how the health service is dealing with the current level of cases.
Although there were presentations on the broad economic, labor and social implications of another blockade.
Issues of mental health and domestic violence were also considered, while ministers were told that “children were safer in schools” and stressed the importance of staying open.
Those sensitive issues will be further considered by the government today before a full cabinet meeting tomorrow to make a call.
There has been criticism of the cabinet for not moving faster, including from Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.
But government sources have stressed that this is too big a decision to rush and that all the time necessary will be taken to make a call about something that, if implemented, would potentially put hundreds of thousands of people out of work and restrict population movements. . the whole country.
Speaking after the meeting, Eamon Ryan suggested that he believes the level of hospitalizations for Covid 19 would not require an urgent decision on any change in the level of restrictions.
The Green Party leader said it was appropriate that they take their time.
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Photo – An Garda Síochána
