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The Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme replaced an earlier COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme. [20] [21] By early April, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) announced that a figure equivalent to more than one tenth of the country's population were unemployed. [22] [23] A spokesman for Goodbody Stockbrokers described it as "unprecedented". [24]
The July Jobs Stimulus is a €7.4 billion stimulus package announced by the Government of Ireland on 23 July 2020 in response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland. [1] [2] [3] The package includes 50 measures to boost economic recovery and get people back to work. [4]
Tourism in the Republic of Ireland is one of the biggest contributors to the economy of Ireland, with 9.0 million people visiting the country in 2017, about 1.8 times Ireland's population. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each year about €5.2bn in revenue is made from economic activities directly related to tourists, accounting for nearly 2% of GNP and employing ...
On 12 March, nine residents at a nursing home with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Trim, County Meath died after the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered there. [ 294 ] [ 295 ] On 12 November, it was announced that visitors to nursing homes would be required to show a COVID-19 vaccination certificate, a HSE vaccination record or ...
On 5 June, Varadkar announced a series of changes to the government's roadmap of easing COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland, which he summed up as: "Stay Local". [30] On 12 June, Varadkar announced that travel restrictions remain in place and that nobody should leave Ireland for the purpose of tourism or leisure. [31]
The current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Thailand is a crisis for the tourism industry and economy. [39] Foreign arrivals in March 2020 fell by 76% year-on-year, and tourist spending fell 78% year-on-year. [ 40 ]
While COVID-19 increased mortality in general, different countries experienced dramatically different impacts on birth rate. Birth rates in the US declined, whereas Germany's reached an all-time monthly high. [85] Some in China had initially thought that their COVID-19 lockdowns would boost birth rate, but that prediction was proven wrong. [86]
On Christmas Eve, all restaurants, cafés and gastropubs closed again at 3 pm following the reimposition of lockdown restrictions until 12 January 2021 at the earliest, after a third wave of COVID-19 arrived in Ireland. [46] Due to the repeated extension of the lockdown, they remained closed throughout the first five months of 2021. [47]