Ireland is first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown

[RussBLib]

Source: CBS News

Ireland will be the first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said Monday, issuing a nationwide "stay at home" order but insisting schools will stay open. Measures coming into effect for six weeks from midnight on Wednesday will see all non-essential retail businesses close and bars and restaurants limited to takeaway or delivery service only.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-ireland-first-eu-country-return-lockdown/

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I hear the Czech Republic is about to lockdown too.

[ItsjustMe]

1. I am not surprised

This youtube channel Is from Ireland, and most people are not wearing a mask.

[Warpy]

2. Things are a little scary here

but the northern plains states are the ones that are really being hammered by this things, one county in the Dakotas showing 500 cases per 100,000 per day. That is huge. They're the places that need to shut down, but Republicans won't do that.

[Eugene]

4. AP: Czechs enter 2nd lockdown to avoid health system collapse

Czechs enter 2nd lockdown to avoid health system collapse

PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs had been assured it wouldn’t happen again.

But amid a record surge of coronavirus infections that’s threatening the entire health system with collapse, the Czech Republic is adopting on Thursday exactly the same massive restrictions it slapped on citizens in the spring. Prime Minister Andrej Babis had repeatedly said these measures would never return.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-czech-republic-prague-andrej-babis-8c1a05d3280ae8b6cd773b8e9fc952f3

[JCMach1]

5. Cold weather. Europe is a few weeks ahead of US.

Winter is coming, friends