Government's roadmap to ease Covid-19 restrictions will be set out in 5 phases

Government's roadmap to ease Covid-19 restrictions will be set out in 5 phases. These phases will be on 3 week review process, the current phases would commence on the following dates:

Phase 1 - 18th May
Phase 2 - 8th June
Phase 3 - 29th June
Phase 4 - 20th July
Phase 5 - 10th August

If coronavirus cases begin to increase, we will revert to the restrictions set out in the previous stage.

🔮 PHASE 1 🔮

Phase 1 of the roadmap will lift the following restrictions:

🔸 Construction workers, landscape gardeners and other outdoor workers may return to work

🔸 Garden centres, repair shops and hardware stores may reopen

🔸 Fitness & sport activities (non-contact) in small groups (max of 4 people) may resume (golf included)

🔸  People may meet up with friends and family in small groups outdoors (size of a "small group" is defined as up to 4 people)

🔸 The majority of regular health services will resume

🔸 Outdoor public amenities and tourism sites may reopen (beaches & mountain walks)

*NOTE - social distancing guidelines will remain in operation for all

🔮 PHASE 2 🔮

Phase 2 of the roadmap will lift the following restrictions:

🔸 Restriction will be extended from 5km to 20km

🔸 Specific retail hours will be allocated for those currently cocooning

🔸 Home visits will be allowed to those cocooning, by a small number of persons for a short period of time

🔸 Up to 4 people may visit another household for a short period of time

🔸 Slightly larger family gatherings at funerals will be permitted (limited to maximum safe social distancing can still be applied)

🔸 Solitary workers and workers that can maintain social distancing can return to work

🔸 Small retail outlets that can control staff and customer numbers and maintain social distancing may reopen

🔸 Public libraries will reopen

🔸 Outdoor sporting activities, involving small group training (no matches) can recommenced (no contact still allowed)

🔮 PHASE 3 🔮

Phase 3 of the roadmap will lift the following restrictions:

🔸 Commence opening of creches and pre-schools for children of essential workers

🔸 Commence a phased approach to visiting at hospitals and other healthcare settings

🔸 Businesses where employees have low levels of daily interaction may reopen

🔸 Phase in the opening of all other non-essential retail outlets, restricting customer numbers and applying social distancing (limited to retail outlets with street level entrance and exit, i.e. not in shopping centres)

🔸 Playgrounds will be reopened

🔸 'Behind closed doors' sporting events may recommence

🔸 Cafes and restaurants may reopen as long as social distancing is maintained

🔮 PHASE 4 🔮

Phase 4 of the roadmap will lift the following restrictions:

🔸 Travel will be extended to outside of your region

🔸 Larger household visits will be permitted

🔸 Small social gatherings will be permitted (baptisms, small weddings etc.)

🔸 Creches and pre-schools will reopen for all other children

🔸 Other employees return to work - beginning with those who cannot work remotely and then staggering the working times to ensure social distancing

🔸 Barbers and hairdressers may reopen

🔸 Museums and other cultural outlets may reopen

🔸 Sports teams (GAA & soccer) may recommence and public swimming pools may reopen

🔸 Hotels and other hospitality units may reopen based on limited occupancy. Hotel bars are to remain closed.

🔮 PHASE 5 🔮

Phase 5 of the roadmap will lift the following restrictions:

🔸 Social gatherings will be permitted except for large gathering and gatherings in households of suspect cases

🔸 Schools and colleges will reopen on a phased basis and will recommence in the new academic year

🔸 Normal hospital and other residential setting visits will be allowed

🔸 All employees may return to work on normal onsite arrangements, except organisations that cannot maintain social distancing plans

🔸 Enclosed shopping centres may reopen

🔸 Tattoo and piercing parlors may reopen

🔸 Cinemas may reopen

🔸 Close contact physical sports may recommence (rugby, boxing etc.)

🔸 Gyms and dance studios may reopen

🔸 Mass sporting events may recommence where social distancing can be maintained

🔸 Indoor recreational venues may reopen (bowling, bingo etc.)

🔸Small festivals and other outdoor cultural events may resume

🔸 Tourist travel to offshore islands may resume

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9 Most Popular Finance Blogs You’ll Want to Follow Right Now

9 Most Popular Finance Blogs

Here are our picks for the 9 most popular finance blogs you'll instantly want to follow

9 Most Popular Finance Blogs

Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai ceo Sam Dogen formally retired at the age of just 34! So, needless to say, he knows a bit about making, saving and spending money – and on his financial blog, he is happy to share that information with you. Topics discussed include everything from early retirement (and why you may not want to) to instructions on how to buy a vehicle and how much you can pay.

Dough Roller

You will find great tips on banking, saving, using credit wisely, managing money, and everything in between on the Dough Roller blog, courtesy of Founder Rob Berger and the site's team of financial experts. Particularly popular are their reviews of various banks, checking accounts, credit cards and financial services.

Get Rich Slowly

These days everyone wants to get rich quickly but J.D. On Get Rich Slowly, Roth urges you to take a different path. Here's tips on living below your means, optimizing your personal investments, retirement planning and debt overcoming make it one of the best personal finance blogs to track.

Money Saving Mom

Money Saving Mom's website, as a wife and mother, helps to make and save money when raising a family, but even single or childless individuals will benefit from their wealth of advice. And while everyone will enjoy the tips and deals shared by the site's owner, Crystal Paine, blog owners will especially love her knowledge about starting and building up your own business finance blog.

Cash Cow Couple

Cash Cow Couple shares married couple Jacob and Vanessa's life and financial planning. These two are committed to minimalist living and describing how they spent as little as $1,000 a month during their early marriage years. It makes them one of the best frugal living blogs and the couple also reveals how they used their lack of spending to get out of debt, become financially free, and even take luxurious holidays.

The Penny Hoarder

Contrary to what its name may mean, The Penny Hoarder is not merely about pinching small coins of copper. Whether it's a side business, a second job, or just an easy way to make some extra cash, the site actually has a ton of content to make money too.

There are of course still plenty of stories on saving money, whether it's smart investment decisions or frugal living. Yeah, people love the Penny Hoarder freebies and other deals.

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Also known as the "Ramit Sethi blog," with Sethi's best-selling novel, I'll teach you to be rich. Here you can get plenty of advice and insights directly from one of the most popular and well-known gurus in personal finance around.

Money Ning

Do you want to bring frugal living to the next level? David Ning has just the stuff at the Money Ning, from living on just $34.01 a week to budget travel and holiday tips. The blog of course covers a lot more than spending cuts, including some great info on investment and money management. The name of the game at Money Ning is to spend less and save more.

Budgets Are Sexy

Budgets Are Sexy, as you can probably tell by the name, does a great job of making personal finance fun. J., The Author Money, has a lighthearted and engaging style of writing which keeps its readers coming back for more. But don't get us wrong, he always has excellent advice to share on all personal finance issues, from creating a side hustle to early retirement, his wit and banter is just an added bonus.

9 Most Popular Finance Blogs

How can the Pneumonia caused from Corona Virus be treated?

The Pneumonia caused from Corona Virus be treated

How can the Pneumonia caused from Corona Virus be treated?

Unfortunately, so far researchers don’t have anything that can stop people getting Covid-19 pneumonia.

People are already trialling all sorts of medications and we’re hopeful that we might discover that there are various combinations of viral and anti-viral medications that could be effective. At the moment there isn’t any established treatment apart from supportive treatment, which is what we give people in intensive care.

Doctors ventilate them and maintain high oxygen levels until their lungs are able to function in a normal way again as they recover.

Patients with viral pneumonia are also at risk of developing secondary infections, so they would also be treated with anti-viral medication and antibiotics.

In some situations that isn’t enough, he says of the current outbreak. The pneumonia went unabated and the patients did not survive.

How can the Pneumonia caused from Corona Virus be treated?

How does the pneumonia caused from Covid-19 develop?

The pneumonia caused from Covid-19 develop

How does the pneumonia caused from Covid-19 develop?

When people with Covid-19 develop a cough and fever, Wilson says this is a result of the infection reaching the respiratory tree – the air passages that conduct air between the lungs and the outside.

The lining of the respiratory tree becomes injured, causing inflammation. This in turn irritates the nerves in the lining of the airway. Just a speck of dust can stimulate a cough.

But if this gets worse, it goes past just the lining of the airway and goes to the gas exchange units, which are at the end of the air passages.

If the air sacs then become inflamed, this causes an outpouring of inflammatory material [fluid and inflammatory cells] into the lungs and we end up with pneumonia.

Lungs that become filled with inflammatory material are unable to get enough oxygen to the bloodstream, reducing the body’s ability to take on oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide.

That’s the usual cause of death with severe pneumonia.

How does the pneumonia caused from Covid-19 develop?

How is the Corona virus affecting people?

 Corona virus affecting people

How is the Corona virus affecting people?

Almost all severe Covid-19 effects include pneumonia.

You may put people who catch Covid-19 into four specific categories.

The least extreme are some "sub-clinical" individuals who have the virus but have no symptoms.

First are those that have an upper respiratory tract infection, which means a person has fever and cough, and maybe milder symptoms such as headache or conjunctivitis.

Many with mild symptoms are still capable of transmitting the virus, but may not be conscious.

The largest group of those that will be positive for Covid-19, and the individuals that are most likely to go to hospitals and operations, are those who have the same flu-like symptoms that would normally hold them from work.

In Wuhan, it worked out that roughly 6 percent of those who had tested positive and sought medical help had a severe disease. The WHO says that the elderly and people with underlying problems such as high blood pressure, heart and lung problems or diabetes are more likely to develop serious illness.

How is the Corona virus affecting people?

CORONA VIRUS

Indications of the Disease

Corona Virus

• What is Corona Virus?

• Corona Virus Symptoms

• How is the Corona virus affecting people?

• How does the Pneumonia caused from Covid-19 develop?

• How can the Pneumonia caused from Corona Virus be treated?

• Corona Virus! Prevention is Better than Cure

CORONA VIRUS

Corona Virus Symptoms

Symptoms of Corona Virus

Corona Virus Symptoms

The COVID-19 virus has various ways of affecting different individuals.  COVID-19 is a respiratory disease and most infected patients may experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment being needed.  Individuals with chronic medical problems and people aged 60 and above have an elevated risk of contracting serious illness and death.

Common symptoms include:

• Fever
• Dry cough
• Tiredness.

Other symptoms include:

• Shortness of breath
• Sore throat
• Aches and pains
• Very few people will report diarrhoea, nausea or a runny nose.

People with mild symptoms who are otherwise healthy should self-isolate and contact their medical provider or a COVID-19 information line for advice on testing and referral.

People with fever, cough or difficulty breathing should call their doctor and seek medical attention.

Corona Virus Symptoms