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The Government has announced that the country has moved to Level 5 of the Plan for Living with Covid-19. At Level 5, the public health risk means that the Government has asked citizens to stay at home.
Under current restrictions, persons should not leave their homes except for essential journeys or to avail of outdoor physical exercise within 5km of their home.
Gardai will, commencing today and over the coming days, be carrying out intensive mobile high visibility checkpoints within local areas to engage, explain and encourage persons to support public health guidelines.
The Department of Public Health has tonight urged people in one of the country’s worst hit regions for cases of Covid-19, where gardai are investigating alleged breaches of public health guidelines over Christmas, to “avoid large social gatherings of any kind for New Year’s celebrations“ in order to curb the spread of the virus.
There have been 800 positive coronavirus cases in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary combined over the past two weeks, the Dept of Health Mid West said.
A department spokesman said there was “a growing concern over the impact of Christmas celebrations on the spread of Covid-19 in the community.
Gardai investigating as videos allegedly show full swing Christmas house parties in Limerick
One of the videos allegedly shows a packed party in full swing in a house in the west Limerick town
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Gardai are preparing files for the Director of Public Prosecutions as part of investigations into alleged flouting of mask wearing and social distancing guidelines in the town of Rathkeale.
Rathkeale residents and Traveller rights group Pavee Point have separately raised concerns over the traditional movement of large numbers of the Travelling community from Britain - where a more transmissible form of the virus was detected before it reached Ireland - to Rathkeale, during the pandemic.
More than 1,000 visitors have travelled to the west Limerick town in recent weeks, which has sparked fears of a potential explosion of cases locally.
Gardaí are investigating after a number of house parties allegedly occurred in the town over Christmas.
According to the department spokesman, the “vast majority” of the 800 cases in the region over the past 14 days were “recorded in Limerick”.