62 Shares Persons travelling from dark red areas could be required to do a test before departure, as well as to undergo quarantine after arrival.
The EU is introducing âdark redâ travel zones, where stricter travel restrictions would apply in member states where Covid-19 is circulating at a very high level.
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The dark red countries will apply to any area where the 14-day notification rate is more than 500 per 100,000 people.
As of Sunday 24 January, Ireland s incidence rate per 100,000 people is 840.7, meaning we would be considered dark red .
For people travelling from a âdark red area, Member States should require them to:
The UK variant of Covid-19, which scientists say could be 30pc deadlier, has been detected in all age groups in every health region in Ireland and will be responsible for more than 90pc of all infections by mid-February, if not earlier.
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FactCheck: No, the lack of hospitalisations from flu is not because cases are mistakenly being diagnosed as Covid-19
The claim goes against what medical and scientific experts have observed in Ireland and other countries around the world. By Anthony King Saturday 23 Jan 2021, 12:05 AM Jan 23rd 2021, 12:05 AM 46,344 Views 0 Comments
A CLAIM SHARED on Twitter and Facebook says that the lack of deaths and hospitalisations from flu is because cases are being diagnosed as Covid-19 instead.
The theory has been propagated by Niall Boylan, a presenter at Classic Hits radio station.
In a post on Twitter in recent weeks, which has also been shared widely on Facebook, Boylan wrote that “we would normally have thousands hospitalised and many influenza related deaths [at this point of the year], yet this year we have none at all