Ireland’s Path To Removing Lockdown

On Friday Leo Varadkar will address the nation regarding what potential measures might be lightened past the 5th of May, as Ireland closes in on its 7th week of Lockdown. As the days draw, closer vast changes are seemingly less likely, as testing and ICU figures are still not close enough from their desired level. Episode 21 of the podcast looks at what exactly needs to fall into place before Ireland begins to move in that direction, but also how the country is fairing with life in their 2-kilometre radius so far. Dr Akke Velinga is an epidemiologist and the joint research lead of the Corona Citizens’ Science study - a countrywide survey conducted by research teams at NUI Galway (NUIG) and Dublin City University which looked at the impact COVID 19 and its associated restrictions has had on daily lives of people around the country. I spoke to her about the findings of the results, and what her predictions are for life after May 5th. Ian also spoke to Dr Gabriel Scally, Public Healthy Physician and President of Epidemiology & Public Health at the Royal Society of Medicine about where Ireland finds itself now, and what must take place before life slowly trickles back to any sort of normality? Produced by UrbanMedia Hosted by Ian Doyle Music by Psykick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.