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Dr. Gabriel Scally said family gatherings this Christmas should be postponed until the summer solstice in June, and governments should grant two bank holidays to cater for this.
The chairman of epidemiology and public health at the Royal Society of Medicine in London said he disagrees with easing restrictions during the holiday period and that Christmas gatherings should essentially be postponed until June.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio One’s Tomorrow Ireland, said: “I would like to be a very generous public health doctor here and I would like to suggest that governments say that we are going to postpone that family reunion since the depths of winter and we are going to have them in June around the solstice, the solstice summer in June, and we will give you two more holidays.
“And by that time, the vaccine will have helped us tremendously and will give people something to look forward to and they will be able to restart their family reunions for six months when we should have been through the worst of this Covid.”
Meanwhile, Dr Scally has harshly criticized Northern Ireland’s approach to Covid-19, saying that he believes his Health Minister should resign and that if it were up to him, he would “change the team.”
In a tweet posted today, Dr Scally said “disaster is coming” for Northern Ireland.
He wrote: “The handling of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland is incredible.
“The health service is about to be overwhelmed, but efforts to prevent the growth of cases have been relaxed. Shops, cafes, restaurants and bars serving food all open. Disaster is coming. “
Speaking about the current situation in Northern Ireland, Dr Scally said that he “is speechless about how bad it is and how badly it has been managed.”
He added: “The UK approach, including Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland, is absolutely one of the worst in the UK, it is a reactive approach.
“They wait to see how it goes and then the numbers grow, the admissions grow, the deaths grow, and then they act.
“There is no preventive approach, there is no public health approach in Northern Ireland and contact tracing is miniscule compared to contact tracing in the Republic and even that could be improved.
“It is simply a terrible abdication of responsibility.”
The Belfast native added that if Northern Ireland were a football team, their coach would be fired.
“If Northern Ireland were a football team, the managers would have fired the coach and replaced the coaching staff,” he said.
When asked if he thinks Health Minister Robin Swann should resign, Dr Scally said: “I personally would, I think since Northern Ireland is there, I would change the team and maybe put in some public health people. in the team.
“This is a public health emergency without public health leadership.”
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