Could Ireland Become Europe’s ‘Wayward Child’ In Covid Response?



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While the country was shaken by the Clifden golf dinner controversy, the battle against Covid-19 has not gone as well as it should.

The latest figures from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show how badly Ireland is compared to most of our neighbors in the EU.

The UK was once Europe’s “bad boy” in fighting the virus, thanks to a faltering start, multiple U-turns and occasional injections of superfluous ideology. Meanwhile, Sweden was the continent’s “wayward child”, determined to go its own way by resisting the closure and closure of most schools and businesses.

Both countries suffered an unnecessarily high death toll and came under harsh criticism during the months of peak pandemic. Now, in their own way, they have managed to improve their game and the trends in terms of deaths and cases are generally positive.

Meanwhile, Ireland, which achieved one of the lowest incidences in Europe in mid-summer, is now struggling to contain new outbreaks. So much so that the latest ECDC figures show that our figures are higher than those of the UK and Sweden. (The death rate in Sweden is 60% higher than in Ireland).

The incidence of the virus in Ireland is also higher than in Italy, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Iceland, Cyprus and Latvia.

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