🎉 Irish government to end most restrictions tomorrow 🎉
🌴 Holidays are now mandatory
✈️ Trips to look forward to are essential
👯♀️ Getaways to see family and friends are advised 🥳
“I've just been banging the drum about this really simple tool that frankly could have prevented the outbreaks of last winter.”
@HarvardChanSPH immunologist @michaelmina_lab explains how rapid antigen tests could help us beat #Covid19 https://t.co/N4FhfOrr8r
And if we closed our airports and shutdown our airlines, we could get emissions down to zero! #WeCanBeZero
Anyone else disturbed by the aviation regulator celebrating the destruction of the very same industry it's regulating?! Have we entered a parallel universe? WTH! @RecovAIRie
As of today 23 July still wrong. Calling out Govt Advisory against all non-essential international travel. This is the Reopen EU website, the official EU website where we are sending everyone for information. This must sit with @dfatirl but who knows. @ITAATweets@RecovAIRie
I want to welcome the Cabinet decision today to allow all children under the age of 12 be exempt form requiring a PCR test returning to Ireland as I requested last week. Will decrease the costs associated with travel for families and bring some parity across Europe @RecovAIRie
Our full interview with @niamh_power, doctor, pilot and director of @v1medical.
We talk about NPHET, antigen testing and Europe's longest and most damaging lockdown.
We need to start living again.
https://t.co/LrVfc6nVlu
On 1 July, an EU Regulation to facilitate free movement, binding on every EU state came into force. The Taoiseach didn't even seem aware of new Irish Regulations, made on 4 July, invalidly continuing the offence of “non-essential travel” to EU states.
Can @IrishTimes get its facts right ?
There is no “requirement” for non vaccinated people to get a PCR test to go abroad.
You can get a Digital Covid Certificate if you have recovered
Or an antigen test (in many EU countries)
https://t.co/KhGdyDpAVC
Full interview will be released early next week.
All the contentious questions are asked about antigen testing, Ireland’s response, the Ferguson Report and NPHETs resistance
We recently spoke to our colleague, Dr Niamh Power, about antigen testing, aviation and Ireland's response to covid.
Including a bit about Denmark, and restaurants...
#antigen
I welcome today’s news from Min @DonnellyStephen that Professor Mary Horgan is to head up a new group to progress use of rapid #antigen testing here
Our Oir Transp cmtte has written to Min Donnelly & Gov requesting aviation sector must be included in Terms of Reference for group
Ireland is the only EU member state that will not be ready to comply with the EU Digital Covid Certificate for travel when it comes into effect tomorrow, due to the recent HSE cyber attack, the European Commissioner for Justice has said | Read more: https://t.co/Vimp6ypZJg