Ireland will bring in 'decisive' nationwide COVID-19 restrictions on Monday but will stop short of reintroducing the kind of lockdown imposed earlier this year, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said on Sunday.
FILE PHOTO: Houses are seen behind a sign for a closed main walkway as the National Public Health Emergency Team announced recommendations that the government implement the highest level of COVID-19 restrictions to Level 5, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Galway, Ireland, October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
The government rejected a recommendation by health chiefs two weeks ago to jump Level 5, the highest level of COVID-19 curbs, and instead tightened restrictions in a varied regional approach that Harris said was no longer sufficient. “The government will act tomorrow, the action will be decisive and it will be nationwide action,” Harris, who was the health minister during one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns from the end of March to mid-May, told national broadcaster RTE.
The government moved three counties on its open border with Northern Ireland, which is harder hit by COVID-19, to Level 4 of its five-step framework on Wednesday and banned most visits to homes across the country. The other 23 counties are on Level 3, which bans all indoor restaurant dining.
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