GARDAI WARN ENNISCORTHY RESIDENTS AGAINST CHRISTMAS HOUSE PARTIES
Enniscorthy Gardai are reminding the public about their obligations when it comes to visitors to your home this Christmas time.
Members of the force have called into a number of residences around the area after reports of house parties over the last few days.
Until December 31st, only visits from one other household are permitted as the Government looks to crackdown on rising Covid case numbers in County Wexford.
Another 40 cases of Covid 19 were confirmed in County Wexford last night
According to the department of health, Wexford retains the second highest 14 day incidence rate in the country at 348.6 only below Donegal.
14 CASES OF COVID CONFIRMED IN WEXFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL
There were 14 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Wexford General Hospital last night
The rapid growth of Covid-19 in recent days shows how unstable the outbreak was before Christmas, according to a leading infectious diseases specialist.
Yesterday the Department of Health reported 1,296 new cases the highest-ever number confirmed in a single day in the Republic.
Six more patients with the virus have died, bringing the death toll to 2,200.
Professor Sam McConkey says the outbreak could only be called “stable” here if we were seeing under ten cases a day:
Fethard GP Dr John Cox s practice has been contacted by people concerned about the mutant strain of Covid-19 entering the community following a large funeral in Ramsgrange.
Despite an announcement earlier this month that the HSE was to lift a ban on partners of pregnant women attending the maternity unit for 20-week scans, Wexford General Hospital will still not be admitting partners amid Covid concerns, it has emerged.
A national campaign on the issue saw the practice of not allowing partners to attend important scans as inhumane as in several cases, it resulted in expectant mothers being given bad news on their own and then having to relay this news to their partners waiting in the hospital car park.
While in other parts of the country, expectant fathers and partners will be allowed to attend the anomaly scan, mothers giving birth at Wexford General will be forced to go it alone in terms of their scans, as the Ireland East Hospital Group states that Wexford, St Luke s and the Regional Hospital in Mullingar are not in the position to accommodate partners.
However, a number of other mourners at the funeral also contracted the disease and some are receiving medical treatment.
Gardaí are investigating the alleged Covid-19 regulation breaches at the funeral in Co Wexford a fortnight ago. The HSE and Gardaí have also appealed to people at the funeral to contact their local GP and get tested to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
Surgeries in Wexford General Hospital were cancelled as a result of the outbreak. Wexford General Hospital made the decision to curtail non-urgent surgeries for a short period of time.
Businesses in the county are reporting a major drop off in trade as people are afraid to go shopping or out for meals.