Ireland:
Measures will remain in place until Sunday 19 April - this is "not a lockdown".
All non-essential retail outlets are being told to close, with restaurants and cafes told to close unless they can offer a take-away option. Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open. There will be no restrictions on the amount of times a person can leave their home a day but these are being limited to groups of four people.
All theatres, clubs, gyms/leisure centres, hairdressers, betting shops, marts, markets, casinos, bingo halls, libraries and similar outlets are to close.
All sporting events are cancelled, including those behind closed doors. All playgrounds and holiday/caravan parks to close.
All hotels are to limit occupancy to essential non-social and non-tourist reasons.
Social gatherings of no more than four people are allowed (more allowed if from the same household)
The government is to increase the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Support payment for people who have been laid off due to the virus from €203 to €350. The payment will also apply to the self-employed who are affected by Covid-19. An emergency wage subsidy scheme under which the Government will pay 70% of a worker’s salary up to a cap of €410 per week net – equivalent to the after-tax income of a worker on around €40,000.
Varadkar said private hospitals “will act effectively as public hospitals” for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said: “Private hospitals have agreed to do this on a not-for-profit basis.
Measures will remain in place until Sunday 19 April - this is "not a lockdown".
All non-essential retail outlets are being told to close, with restaurants and cafes told to close unless they can offer a take-away option. Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open. There will be no restrictions on the amount of times a person can leave their home a day but these are being limited to groups of four people.
All theatres, clubs, gyms/leisure centres, hairdressers, betting shops, marts, markets, casinos, bingo halls, libraries and similar outlets are to close.
All sporting events are cancelled, including those behind closed doors. All playgrounds and holiday/caravan parks to close.
All hotels are to limit occupancy to essential non-social and non-tourist reasons.
Social gatherings of no more than four people are allowed (more allowed if from the same household)
The government is to increase the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Support payment for people who have been laid off due to the virus from €203 to €350. The payment will also apply to the self-employed who are affected by Covid-19. An emergency wage subsidy scheme under which the Government will pay 70% of a worker’s salary up to a cap of €410 per week net – equivalent to the after-tax income of a worker on around €40,000.
Varadkar said private hospitals “will act effectively as public hospitals” for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said: “Private hospitals have agreed to do this on a not-for-profit basis.
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