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The deputy chief medical officer has urged people not to buy cans or pints to go and meet friends this St. Patrick’s Day.
Dr. Ronan Glynn says that infection levels in the community are still too high.
It comes as a plus 575 new cases of Covid-19 They have been confirmed this afternoon and there are no new deaths.
Dr. Glynn urged people not to come together to celebrate for the next few days.
He said: “We don’t want people to gather to drink pints, we don’t want people to gather inside. We don’t want people to buy cans and gather to drink them on St. Patrick’s Day.
“We are giving the message because we know what will happen if people meet, some of those people will end up in the hospital. Some of those people will die, none of us wants that to happen, especially since those same people could get vaccinated in the coming weeks. “
Of the cases reported today:
- 289 are men / 282 are women.
- 73% are under 45 years old.
- The average age is 30 years.
- 232 are in Dublin, 48 in Meath, 41 in Tipperary, 38 in Kildare, 30 in Galway and the remaining 186 cases are distributed in another 20 counties.
- As of 8 am today, 360 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, of which 85 are in the ICU. An additional 25 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in Irish hospitals in the last 24 hours.
As of March 12, 606,904 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine had been administered in Ireland.
- 443,092 people have received their first dose.
- 163,812 people have received their second dose.
Pausing the Oxford / AstraZeneca coup in Ireland “was the right thing to do,” said a senior government adviser.
Professor Karina Butler said the use of the vaccine has been stopped with “great caution.”
‘Slight postponement’.
“We and other countries – Holland, Germany, Italy – have paused, and it is just a pause, the use of AstraZeneca,” he said.
“This is a slight postponement to make sure we are doing the right thing, using it properly, and delivering it to the right people.”
Earlier, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said that 30,000 people who will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine this week will have their vaccines rescheduled in the coming weeks.
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