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NPHET recommends extra nationwide restrictions on household visits

No counties will be moved up a level of restrictions today after a decision from NPHET. However, ...
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15.25 1 Oct 2020


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NPHET recommends extra nationwide restrictions on household visits

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No counties will be moved up a level of restrictions today after a decision from NPHET.

However, health officials have recommended further nationwide restrictions on visitors to people's homes.

They've recommended to the Government that people can have no more than six visitors from one other household in their home at any one time.

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While that restriction is already in place for Dublin and Donegal, people in other counties have been allowed visitors from up to three other households.

The move comes in a bid to combat community spread of coronavirus.

Only Dublin and Donegal are currently on level three restrictions, while every other county remains at the lower level two restrictions.

Figures released earlier today show there are now four counties with a 14-day coronavirus rate above 100, with Roscommon joining, Dublin, Donegal and Monaghan.

The national incidence rate has jumped from 88.5 per 100,000 population yesterday to 92.1 today.

Reporting by Sean Defoe, Michael Staines and Stephen McNeice
Main image: Pictured are (l to r) Dr. Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE, and Dr Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer. Photo: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

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