Can’t wait to see how effectiveness of this measure will be monitored https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Gesicht mit rollenden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit rollenden Augen"> https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1107/1176560-coronavirus-ireland/">https://www.rte.ie/news/coro... via @rte

This is Denmark’s public health response to the new SARS-CoV-2 mink variant. Match this to the #COVID19ireland response. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink/denmark-tightens-lockdown-in-north-mink-cull-devastates-industry-idUKKBN27L2N7">https://uk.reuters.com/article/u...

The #SARS-CoV-2 mink variant identified in the Danish ‘cluster 5’ has a series of mutations in the virus that may render current #COVID19 vaccines less effective. This is what RNA viruses do - mutate to escape- and why vaccines should not be relied upon to be ‘magic bullets’.1/2

This is why we need interventions that comprehensively target all four pillars of pandemic control - testing, contact tracing, isolation and detailed transmission investigation. Success relies on us having no weak links - at the minute we have several. #COVID19Ireland