New Covid-19 measures from 27Mar2020
Taoiseachs speech announcing further restrictions and measures
List of extra restrictions from end of 27Mar2020 until 12Apr2020
So, with effect from midnight tonight, for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, April 12th.
Everybody must stay at home in all circumstances, except for the following situations:
To travel to and from work, or for purposes of work, only where the work is an essential health, social care or other essential service and cannot be done from home. A list will be provided.
To shop for food and household goods or collect a meal.
To attend medical appointments and collect medicines and other health products.
For vital family reasons, such as providing care to children, elderly or vulnerable people.
To take brief individual physical exercise within 2km of your home, which may include children from your household, as long as you adhere to strict 2m physical distancing.
For farming purposes, ie food production or care of animals.
All public and private gatherings of any number of people outside a single household or living unit are prohibited.
The virus might be in your household already – so don’t spread it to someone else’s.
Sadly, this prohibition includes social family visits that are not for the vital reasons I have already mentioned.
A further range of non-essential shops and services will be closed.
The guidance given earlier in the week, in respect of essential retail outlets will be revised, to reflect this.
Adult community education centres and local community centres will be shut.
All non-essential surgery, health procedures and other non-essential health services will be postponed.
All visits to hospitals, residential healthcare centres, other residential settings and prisons are to cease, with specific exceptions on compassionate grounds.
Shielding, or cocooning, will be introduced for all those over 70 years of age and specified categories of people who are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19. Detailed guidance will be available.
Travel to our offshore islands will be limited to residents of those islands.
Pharmacists will be permitted to dispense medicines outside the current period of validity of the existing prescription in line with the pharmacist’s clinical judgement.
All public transport and passenger travel will be restricted only to essential workers and people providing essential services.
Apart from the activities I have listed, there should be no travel outside 2km radius from your home for any other reason.
A list of essential services etc is to be announced
Please note there is still confusion regarding what is considered essential and clarification and lists are awaited
