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Coronavirus live news: WHO says failure to quarantine behind soaring case rises

Coronavirus live news: WHO says failure to quarantine behind soaring case rises

Coronavirus live news: WHO says failure to quarantine behind soaring case rises
Oct 20, 2020 1 min, 50 secs

The first minister, Mark Drakeford, insisted the two-week “firebreak” – under which schools, shops, pubs and hotels will close and citizens will be told to stay at home – was needed to prevent thousands more deaths and the NHS becoming overwhelmed.

I’ll bring you any salient coronavirus lines.

Trump attacked Fauci using a call with campaign staff on Monday to deride him as “a disaster” and to claim “people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots” discuss ways to combat the coronavirus.

The president spoke one day after CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview with Fauci, in which the 79-year-old said he was “absolutely not” surprised Trump recently contracted the coronavirus himself, because he was holding crowded events with minimal social distancing and use of masks in the days before he developed symptoms.

Ireland has become the first European Union country to to re-enter lockdown, with the Taoiseach (prime minister), Micheál Martin, issuing a nationwide “stay at home”.

Martin said Ireland’s latest restrictions were “probably Europe’s strictest regime” but that “further action is now required”.

“Everyone in the country is being asked to stay at home,” Martin said in a televised national address.

Only essential workers will be “permitted to travel to work”, he said, and citizens will be allowed out to exercise only within 5km of home.

“If we pull together over the next six weeks, we will have the opportunity to celebrate Christmas in a meaningful way,” Martin said

But Ireland’s health service has little spare capacity, especially for intensive care

“I do not believe that has occurred systematically, anywhere,” Ryan said, adding it was “a good part of the reason why we’re seeing such high numbers”

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, with me, Alison Rourke

The World Health Organization’s emergencies director, Michael Ryan, has blamed soaring transmission rates in the northern hemisphere on a failure to enforce quarantines rigorously

It comes as Ireland announced a return to coronavirus lockdown, with the prime minister, Micheal Martin, issuing a nationwide “stay at home” order, but insisting schools will stay open

“Everyone in the country is being asked to stay at home,” Martin said in a televised national address

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