Another big day.
NPHET and Cabinet meeting on Phase 4 restrictions:
🔴 Last night the Health Minister wouldn't be drawn on likelihood of reopening pubs, but said it's factually correct to say there are more cases now than when "pause" was pressed on Phase 4 a few weeks ago.
✈️ Travel will be on the agenda again for Cabinet.
🔬 Random testing at airports will be discussed.
🦠 Outbreaks in some countries could see them removed from the Green List.
💒 Wedding planners will be watching closely to see if gatherings of up to 100 people indoors will be allowed.
🏐⚽ Sports leagues more hopeful that gatherings of up to 500 people outdoors will be permitted.
Latest on @VirginMediaNews throughout the day.
#COVID19
Optimism about reopening pubs has been dwindling among Cabinet ministers over recent days.
One metric to look at is the five day average of new cases.
Yesterday: 53.
July 15th (when Phase 4 was initially paused): 19.
Nearly three times as many new cases daily on average.
One relief has been that NPHET says it knows where the majority of new cases are coming from - they've generally been seeing clusters and close contacts.
Only a small number of new cases over the past two days have been of community transmission (cases "in the wild")
Meanwhile, number of registrations of the #CovidTracker app is now up and over 1,500,000.
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