Covid 19 Part XXI-27,908 in ROI (1,777 deaths) 6,647 in NI (559 deaths)(22/08)Read OP

KrustyUCC

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

That's good news

0.71% positive

ACitizenErased

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

Looks like they are going all out on the big clusters. Fingers crossed the lower positive rate is the beginnings of an indication that we are regaining control

smelly sock

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

tobefrank321

Deleted User wrote: »

Very frustrating. We did the hard lockdown and it's been squandered to an extent in a few short months.

Agreed. Zero covid is only achievable using New Zealand methods of quarantine.

Managed isolation and quarantine
Every person who arrives in New Zealand must be isolated from other people in New Zealand for a minimum period of 14 days. This measure is key to preventing the transmission of COVID-19 into our communities.
When they arrive, returnees will be taken to either a managed isolation facility (if they have no symptoms), or to a quarantine facility (if they have symptoms).
Returnees are not required to pre-book a space in the facilities.
Before leaving the facility, a final health check will be carried out confirming the person:
has not tested positive for COVID-19 or is not a probable case
does not have symptoms of COVID-19
has a temperature below 38 degrees Celsius.

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-border-controls

smelly sock

smelly sock wrote: »

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

Great result. :cool:

smelly sock

smelly sock wrote: »

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

How about this - everyone sane, regardless of their views on the progress, seriousness of COVID or restrictions, would prefer lower numbers. But which is better, 94 positives from 13,000 tests or 47 from 1300.

Wolf359f

KrustyUCC wrote: »

That's good news

0.71% positive

I'm 100% positive it's good news
It's a nice drop in positivity rate with the increase in testing.

marno21

That is super news on the testing. It's a full on blitzkrieg at the minute to root out these cluster driven cases and bring them under control.

Remarkable stuff.

fits

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

Thats amazing. Hunting it out.

Well done to those in the labs, test centres, etc.

tobefrank321

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Agreed. Zero covid is only achievable using New Zealand methods of quarantine.



https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-border-controls

And even then it escaped

KrustyUCC

smelly sock wrote: »

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

Could still be over 100 cases with some positive swabs from yesterday unaccounted for but at least hopefully we are on the right track

Gerry Hatrick

Wouldn't be surprised if the government fiddle the numbers today. Huge pressure on them now with the golf fiasco.

That's how it goes guys right?

tobefrank321

smelly sock wrote: »

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

Still a significant number of cases though.

You'd wonder when Kildare lockdown will be lifted. It could be months.

Plumbthedepths

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Agreed. Zero covid is only achievable using New Zealand methods of quarantine.



https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-border-controls

Isn't part of NZ back in strict lockdown?

Wolf359f

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Agreed. Zero covid is only achievable using New Zealand methods of quarantine.



https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-border-controls

Pfff, Ryanair would just lay on additional flights to Belfast. Who wants to be locked up for 2 weeks instead of just flying home via Belfast.

New Zealand also had a much much more restrictive lockdown. I can't see the public going for that

What Username Guidelines

Is there any sort of backlog to speak of or are the books balanced going into this evening?

Renjit

MickeyLeari wrote: »

Who would sack him?

Sack of potatoes :pac:

wowzer

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Is there any sort of backlog to speak of or are the books balanced going into this evening?

Not much, think there was 18 postivie tests not reported as cases yesterday.

eigrod

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

Early sign that things are stabilising again, hopefully.

tobefrank321

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Agreed. Zero covid is only achievable using New Zealand methods of quarantine.



https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-border-controls

Testing/tracing that was excellent would help everyone in this country. Unfortunately it's not. We need to focus on this. What's your solution other than we're not new Zealand?

smelly sock

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Still a significant number of cases though.

You'd wonder when Kildare lockdown will be lifted. It could be months.

I doubt anyone in Kildare will follow anything this shower of crooks in government say after sticking the two fingers up at us.

I won't anymore. I'll take every precaution other counties are taking and follow general advice on solution distancing etc but **** them after this.

Jim_Hodge

smelly sock wrote: »

Wow excellent news. Covid dooms day merchants won't be happy with that.

Hold on now. That level of daily cases would not be anywhere nearly positive.

smelly sock

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Hold on now. That level of daily cases would not be anywhere nearly positive.

Versus the figures they tested it is good news.

Might show that the lockdown of LKO was a little over the top.

SEPT 23 1989

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised if the government fiddle the numbers today. Huge pressure on them now with the golf fiasco.

That's how it goes guys right?

only one new case today:D

yourdeadwright

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

PowerToWait

smelly sock wrote: »

Versus the figures they tested it is good news.

Might show that the lockdown of LKO was a little over the top.

Why would it be over the top if you perceive the reduced numbers of new cases as being an improvement? Surely the restrictions have contributed to this amelioration.

Ficheall

seamus wrote: »

If you are young and healthy, it is incredibly unlikely that you will see the inside of a hospital, never mind an ICU.

Because they won't let you in to visit your sick or dying relatives?

kingshankly

US2 wrote: »

Phil Hogan came straight from Belgium to the golf thing in Cliffden, didnt restrict his movements for 14 days.

Apparently been here since July no doubt you will give him an unreserved apology

ACitizenErased

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

Dublin cases have risen considerably.

yourdeadwright

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

We will know soon is he turned by torture into a double agent spreading misinformation or is the source still secure

antodeco

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

I'm beginning to think the government are getting their figures from here/your mate!

kingshankly

kingshankly wrote: »

Apparently been here since July no doubt you will give him an unreserved apology

Unreserved? The dickhead went to a party with 80 dickheads straight after increased restrictions were announced, and to a party that broke the rules prior to the change also, irregardless of “partitions”

tobefrank321

Will Dublin be locked down if it gets worse there? Or will they go for the "we're all in this together" option.

Oranage2

Any idea how many tests? If it's 5000ish we're still in very high numbers

yourdeadwright

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

Keep it going yourdeadwright, between 5 and 7 can be awkward for me to get the numbers, and having them earlier in the day would be great

ACitizenErased

Oranage2 wrote: »

Any idea how many tests? If it's 5000ish we're still in very high numbers

13,000

Deeper Blue

I think the only way to win back the public support over golfgate is to hang everyone that attended out to dry.

Sack Hogan et al and show that there's zero tolerance for that type of ****housery

yourdeadwright

antodeco wrote: »

I'm beginning to think the government are getting their figures from here/your mate!

Its so strange because if you meet him he's the last person you'd imagine would come across this info ,
He stuck it on our wats ap group and everyone laughed thought he was taking the piss as usual but he hasn't been wrong yet,
Iv only posted it yesterday but have been getting them for a few weeks now ,

Gerry Hatrick

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Better late than never

80 cases , 43 Dublin, 10 Kildare 3 Laois

0 deaths

That's worrying for Dublin.

tobefrank321

Deleted User wrote: »

Testing/tracing that was excellent would help everyone in this country. Unfortunately it's not. We need to focus on this. What's your solution other than we're not new Zealand?

Make it an offence to break home quarantine, with contact tracers used for follow up checks.

Also make it an offence for an employer to force anyone into work who they know travelled to a red zone in the last two weeks.

And make it an offence for a worker to go to a workplace if they had been to a redzone in the two weeks previous or who declined to tell their manager.

Its unlikely we'll ever get to NZ type quarantine hotels, but enforcing quarantines with penalties would be a reasonable half way point.

Unfortunately privacy laws here make telling people where you've been impossible.

As it stands there's nothing so stop someone travelling here and going where they want. There were reports of US tourists going to restaurants even though they should have been in quarantine. Nothing can be done about it as there is no law against it. Our hands are tied.

So zero covid can't happen unless you change laws and remove civil rights.

Always_Running

ACitizenErased wrote: »

94 positive swabs last 24hrs from 13,080 tests - a record testing figure

With the few positive swabs not counted yet I think the max number of confirmed cases we could get today is 112.

Gruffalux

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Its so strange because if you meet him he's the last person you'd imagine would come across this info ,
He stuck it on our wats ap group and everyone laughed thought he was taking the piss as usual but he hasn't been wrong yet,
Iv only posted it yesterday but have been getting them for a few weeks now ,

The best kind of top secret exciting government moles are the last people you would ever imagine to be one.

bb1234567

[Deleted User] wrote: »

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

10 to 12 days is the mean time to hospitalisation not 3 to 4 weeks, and for most countries , in the initial surge, deaths spiked within 10 days of cases spiking

To be fair took at least 4 weeks for deaths to follow increased cases in the US during the second wave

caveat emptor

El Sueño wrote: »

I think the only way to win back the public support over golfgate is to hang everyone that attended out to dry.

Sack Hogan et al and show that there's zero tolerance for that type of ****housery

Zero tolerance is impossible to achieve. We have to live with the s!thousery. No point shutting it down for it to pop up again.

MickeyLeari

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

That's worrying for Dublin.

Dublin has a population of 1.35m so on that basis the daily incidence is 3.2 per 100,000 population. That compares with the national figure of 26.6 per 100,000 (14 day average).

How worried are you?

seamus

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

That's worrying for Dublin.

Not really, it's bang what you'd expect. Dublin share of cases overall is 46%. Today is 53% which is well inside the deviation for such a small number.

ACitizenErased

Always_Running wrote: »

With the few positive swabs not counted yet I think the max number of confirmed cases we could get today is 112.

There was only 18 yesterday which means they were likely repeat tests

bb1234567

bb1234567 wrote: »

To be fair took at least 4 weeks for deaths to follow increased cases in the US during the second wave

Peak 2 in cases for the us was about 10 days before peak 2 in deaths

yourdeadwright

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

That's worrying for Dublin.

Not really Dublin has just over 6 times the population of Kildare ,

Always_Running

Always_Running wrote: »

With the few positive swabs not counted yet I think the max number of confirmed cases we could get today is 112.

Our new cmo, yourdeadwright, has already released today’s numbers