Enhanced contact tracing will aid in the uncovering of secret ‘super-spreader events’, such as family parties and social gatherings, which are fuelling the stubborn levels of Covid infection.
The new regime of tracing cases back seven days is finding ‘missing links’ explaining why infection numbers are not falling faster.
Dr Una Fallon, Director of Public Health, HSE Midlands, said the new process, which was added to the national contact-tracing protocol just last week, would help reveal previously hidden information.
It has already alerted public health in her area to a positive case who had been at a family party involving around 15 people.
It was cathartic in a way - the way in which art sometimes can be. There were some very delicate emotional scenes, and I could access the emotion without any problem, I didn t need days to build up to it and I thought Micheál would be the same. We had such a delicate producer and such a supportive crew that we felt wonderfully comfortable.
Natasha, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, married Neeson in 1994.
She was a renowned actress in her own right, starring in films including Nell and Maid In Manhattan.
Asked about growing up with famous parents, Micheál said he had watched their movies, but it was kind of traumatising at the age of five seeing my dad sliced in half by a lightsabre or blown up in an explosion, and also kissing somebody else.
A-lister and now lifestyle guru Catherine Zeta-Jones has been a working actress since childhood, and a member of Hollywood royalty since partnering up with hubby Michael Douglas over two decades ago.
But that hasn t stopped the Oscar winner from Swansea from taking on exciting new challenges, such as teaming up with fellow Welsh star Michael Sheen for the current season of hit US cop drama Prodigal Son or expanding her eponymous lifestyle brand Casa Zeta-Jones.
Here the 51-year-old tells Magazine+ about the high and lows of the past twelve months, from becoming a fur mom to losing her famous father-in-law - and how it has made her cherish being home with her husband, their children and a new grandchild.
Covid-19 tests carried out by the HSE on Sunday night on two mothers who were ordered into mandatory quarantine after a trip to Dubai have returned negative results.
Ms Mulreany, 25, of Scarlett Row and Kirstie McGrath, 30, from Rialto allegedly refused to enter into quarantine and were subsequently arrested for breaches to the Health Act last Friday after they arrived into Ireland on a flight from Dubai.
When the Dublin friends entered the women’s section of Mountjoy prison on Saturday night two PCR tests were carried out on them. The women had already had three negative PCR tests and an antibody exam.
A Spanish National Police spokesperson said: “The victims, of Romanian nationality, were flown from Romania to Tenerife and once there they travelled in cars belonging to the members of the organization to the towns of Adeje and Arona. Likewise, and from Spain, they were regularly transferred to London (United Kingdom) by air. In all these places they were forced to practice prostitution in hostess clubs or in flats.
“The members of this criminal organization controlled their victims by forcing them to consume narcotic substances, especially cocaine, often provided by the pimps themselves, all with the aim of overriding their will and being more profitable for the business.