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The Irish Government decreed this Monday the maximum alert of the plan to combat the covid-19 pandemic, which forces citizens to stay at home and to close bars, restaurants and non-essential shops, keeping schools and nurseries open.
The new confinement, less restricted than the tax in the first wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, will take effect next Thursday and will last for six weeks, with the aim of progressively lifting the restrictions until early December, so that the economy recovers during the Christmas period.
The sharp increase in the number of covid-19 cases last week forced the Dublin government to issue a high alert throughout the Republic of Ireland, following the recommendations of health advisers.
With the new restrictions, bars and restaurants will only be able to offer the service of selling food outdoors, all family gatherings will be prohibited and visits to other homes will not be allowed, while non-essential trips, such as walking or going out to exercise. physical, it will be limited to a radius of five kilometers.
The population can only leave their respective counties to work, study or “for other essential purposes”, although the Government recommends working from home whenever possible.
From the first confinement, the success of the restrictions then imposed depended on the degree of voluntary compliance of the population, since the authorities do not have the legal tools to, for example, fine offenders.
However, the Dublin Government confirmed today that it is finalizing an emergency legislative package to impose sanctions during the new lockdown.
According to the latest official data, published today, Ireland has not registered deaths in the last 24 hours, whose total remains at 1,852, but it has 1,031 new cases, with the accumulated figure at 50,993.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 40 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
