CORONAVIRUS | Ireland has so far closed all schools, universities, bars and childcare facilities until March 29.
| Ireland expects its number of coronavirus cases to increase to around 15,000 by the end of the month from 223 currently, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Monday, as the government advised against all non-essential travel overseas until then.
"We would expect that by the end of the month there would be maybe 15,000 people who would have tested positive for Covid-19. Most of those will not need treatment but a proportion will need to be hospitalised and we need to make sure that it doesn't happen at the same time," Varadkar told a news conference.
Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney said that included travel to neighbouring Britain, but not the British region of Northern Ireland, which shares an open border with the Irish Republic. Some 20,000 alone presented at unemployment offices on Friday to apply for jobless benefits, the government said.After struggling to implement "social distancing" measures, many pubs announced voluntary closures before the shutdown, and restaurants around the country continued to follow suit on Monday as the industry's main lobby group called for the government to shut the entire industry down.
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