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Covid-19: Government row erupts over plan to expand mandatory quarantine Anger in Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to Department of Health plan about an hour ago   A major row has erupted within Government over plans by the Department of Health to extend mandatory hotel quarantine to 43 additional countries, including the United States, France and Germany. The Attorney General wrote to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly expressing concerns about the plans which have left other Ministers and the European Union “furious”, senior sources confirmed. A source with knowledge of the...

Government under pressure after change to age-based system from one also focused on profession

Mr Donnelly said those aged 50-54 years old were 15 times more likely to die of Covid-19 than those aged 18-34, and the only sector “showing a significant increase in risk from Covid is healthcare”. He said someone aged 50-54 “is three times more likely to be hospitalised, 10 times more likely to end up in intensive care and 15 times more likely to die from Covid” than someone aged 20-24. Fine Gael party chairman Richard Bruton said the change was “absolutely justified but this should not have been sprung on the people the way it was. Mr Bruton said “the evidence...