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Paddy Mallon

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Can’t wait to see how effectiveness of this measure will be monitored

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1107/1176560-coronavirus-ireland/ via @rte

Visitors from Denmark must restrict movements - Ryan

The Minister for Transport has confirmed that anyone arriving into Ireland from Denmark will have to restrict their movements for 14 days over concerns about a mutated strain of Covid-19 in mink that...

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1107/1176560-coronavirus-ireland/

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

Denmark tightens lockdown in north, mink cull devastates industry

Denmark announced strict new lockdown rules on Thursday in the north of the country after authorities discovered a mutated coronavirus strain in minks bred in the region, prompting a nationwide cull...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink/denmark-tightens-lockdown-in-north-mink-cull-devastates-industry-idUKKBN27L2N7

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

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