'Reckless' Christmas easing of rules blamed for Ireland Covid surge
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5CPA1)
Country has world's highest rate of infection with critics blaming socialising over festive period
Ireland emerged from a six-week lockdown in early December with the European Union's lowest coronavirus infection rate.
It eased restrictions in belief it could contain a rise in the virus over Christmas unlike, say, Germany and the UK, countries that had more than four times the level of infection. Then all hell broke loose.
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