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People are being urged to continue to wear masks and follow public health measuresCredit: Alamy Live News
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It is too early for a local lockdown to be consideredCredit: Alamy
According to provisional data released yesterday evening by Public Health Mid-West, there were 137 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Limerick over the past five days.
And Dr Yvonne Williams has said the number of detections could increase to 500 in the coming days if there s no change to the level of transmission. QUADRUPLING OF CASES
Speaking on RTE Saturday with Katie Hannon, she said: Well what we re seeing in Limerick is that we re back to a level that we were last at in early March.
Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan, Mr Donnell, Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys and Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth met on Saturday.
The threat by hackers to publish stolen data on Monday s being taken seriously by the Government. Mr Smyth told RTE news âWe are going to prepare in case it does happenâ.
Gardaà are concerned a protracted wave of scam attacks could follow if data potentially relating to millions of people, which may have been stolen in an attack on the HSE, is published or sold on to other criminals.
Earlier on Saturday HSE chief executive Paul Reid said the process for unlocking network remains âfraught with riskâ .
Reason behind sharing of decryption tool in HSE cyber attack still unclear
Minister of State Niall Collins has confirmed that work is still ongoing to determine whether the decryption key is functional. By Lauren Boland Saturday 22 May 2021, 2:51 PM 2 hours ago 10,925 Views 24 Comments
Junior Minister Niall Collins (file photo)
Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
IT IS “STILL unclear” why a decryption key has been made available in the HSE cyber attack, a minister said today.
A decryption tool that might help the HSE to unlock its IT system following the widespread cyber attack last week is available online.