Award-winning Leitrim distillery partners with Tesco during Covid-19
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As the country marks the one-year milestone since the first Covid-19 national restrictions were introduced; Tesco Ireland looks back on a year like no other.
Whilst the pandemic has affected all industries, the impact on grocery retail has been extraordinary. In the last 12 months, over 13,000 Tesco colleagues have worked tirelessly to serve customers and communities across Ireland.
Since March, Tesco has worked hard to maintain a safe shopping environment for colleagues and customers:
391 individual hand sanitiser units were installed with over 130,000 litres of hand sanitiser used to date, which is enough to fill 817 bathtubs.
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Why should unpaid family carers who give extraordinary care be treated any differently to paid carers on jab list?
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Updated: 4 Mar 2021, 20:27
FAMILY Carers Ireland deplores the continued failure to prioritise family carers in the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.
While we welcome the Government’s recent decision to move many patients aged 16-69 with serious underlying health conditions up the priority list based on advice from NIAC, the fact that family carers are not even mentioned in the revised listing is deeply disappointing.
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Catherine Cox from Family Carers Ireland writes in today s Irish Sun calling for family carers to be prioritised in the vaccine rollout
Speaking in response to the failure to prioritise family carers in the updated vaccine sequencing plan, Sinn Fein TD for Cavan-Monaghan Pauline Tully expressed her deep dismay and frustration that the government has once again ignored carers many of who have had to isolate and act as sole carer since the very start of the pandemic.
Teachta Tully said:
“Who cares for the family carers?
“We know it is definitely not the present government as they have completely ignored their pleas to be prioritised in the vaccine sequencing plan.
“While it is welcome that many patients aged 16-69 with serious underlying health conditions up the priority list based on advice from NIAC, the fact that family carers are not even mentioned in the revised listing is deplorable.