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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]
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 ...
The list was updated, in principle, every two weeks. Several countries (Algeria, Canada, Georgia, Jordan, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia and Uruguay) have been removed from the EU designated COVID-19 safe countries list since it was introduced on 30 June 2020, and no new country was ever added to that list.
Marc Crothall of the Scottish Tourism Alliance said the news was ‘light at the end of a very long tunnel’. Tourism chief welcomes moves to stand down coronavirus restrictions at last Skip to ...
Ireland has contained and effectively suppressed the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the population at large but not in nursing homes where its spread remains a concern, the country's ...
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 ]
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 surveillance of COVID-19 cases was integrated into existing national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) system since COVID-19 was made a notifiable disease on 20 February 2020. CIDR is the information system used to manage the surveillance and control of infectious diseases in Ireland, both at regional and national level. [47]