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Latest news updates for August 30, 2020.
Latest figures:
Today no new deaths have been reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Center.
There have been a total of 1,777 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight on Saturday, August 29, the HPSC has been notified of 42 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There are now a total of 28,760 * confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases reported today;
- 20 are men / 22 are women
- 71% are under 45 years old
- 15 confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or close contacts of a confirmed case.
- 6 cases have been identified as community transmission
- 24 in Dublin, 6 in Limerick and the remaining 12 are in Carlow, Clare, Galway, Kildare, Longford, Offaly and Sligo.
The HSE is working to identify any contacts that patients may have had to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread.
Westmeath has had 689 cases detected in the county, Offaly’s total is 622 and 383 people have tested positive for the disease in Laois. These figures were measured at midnight on Friday, August 28.
Online:
More than half of Irish consumers say they will continue to shop online whenever possible due to Covid-19.
New research from Visa shows that in-store restrictions have also led one in four businesses to sell online for the first time.
The payments company urges those companies to prepare for new EU-wide regulation changes on online transactions that will take effect from January 1.
Salary subsidy:
Sinn Fein does not believe that the replacement of the Temporary Wage Subsidy Plan will keep people in jobs, which they say the government has an obligation to do.
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said he will be replaced as of Tuesday by a new initiative that runs until the end of March 2021.
The maximum allowable allowance will drop from 410 euros to 203 per week, while there will be a lower rate of just over 150 euros for employees with lower wages.
Sinn Fein Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty says they need to provide more support to businesses that are not allowed to open:
Smart phones:
The use of smartphones by children increased by more than 70 percent during the lockdown.
A new DCU investigation also found that more than half of the children witnessed someone else being abused online.
While most parents said they are also concerned about excessive screen time and their children’s mental health.
Respondents also mentioned that cyberbullying occurs more frequently on instant messaging apps than on public sites.
NPHET:
An infectious disease expert asks if the structure of NPHET could be changed to improve our response to Covid-19.
Dr. Jack Lambert says a review should be done.
His comments come amid a steady increase in cases over the past two months: 142 were confirmed yesterday.
Dr. Lambert says a new approach might need to be considered:
WHO:
The World Health Organization’s warning that the world remains “in the middle” as global Covid-19 cases exceed 25 million.
Most are in the United States, India, and Brazil, and the United States’ total alone is close to six million.
Deaths associated with the virus have also exceeded 800,000.
House parties:
The idea of the Gardaí raiding people’s homes to suppress house parties should never have been considered by government ministers.
That’s according to the Irish Civil Liberties Council.
The ministers rejected the suggestion of Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, but announced that inviting more than six people would become a “civil offense”.
ICCL Director Liam Herrick says that when it comes to Irish law, there is no such thing @
UK:
Another 12 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus in the past 28 days.
It brings the total number of deaths so far to 41,498.
There have also been another 11 hundred confirmed cases of Covid-19.
Kildare:
Labor Senator Mark Wall says the people of Kildare are frustrated by the continued lockdown there.
It is expected to continue to this day next week.
He says the county’s leading figure is almost the only topic of conversation:
Local figures:
142 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in 16 counties.
Authorities say there were no more deaths among patients infected with the coronavirus.
59 of the confirmed cases were in Dublin, with 20 more reported in Kildare.
There were 14 cases in Donegal and Limerick, 8 in Wexford, 6 in Tipperary, and 21 in Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Mayo, Meath, and Wicklow.
689 cases have been confirmed in Westmeath, Offaly has had 622 people diagnosed with the disease and 382 people in Laois have tested positive. These figures were measured at midnight on Thursday, August 27.
There were calls for an early departure from the Co Kildare lockdown after relatively low numbers of new cases were recorded there during the week.
But Dr. Denis McCauley, chairman of the Irish Medical Organization’s committee of general practitioners, says that not only is the number important, but where the new infections are coming from:
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