Not for generations has Ireland been faced with a health threat as serious as COVID-19 and the
daily life of every single person has been changed. In the early weeks, as this pandemic was
emerging, Government and our health and social care service monitored the evolving global
situation, deployed our plans and started to prepare for the disease’s likely impact in Ireland. At
the same time, businesses, organisations, communities, families and each of us individually were
becoming informed, changing our individual and collective behaviours so that we would know what
to do, and do the right things as COVID-19 found its way closer.
Within a very short few weeks after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ireland at the end
of February 2020, as with other EU countries, it became necessary to take unprecedented steps to
control the disease. A tiered approach of public health social distancing measures was first advised
by An Taoiseach on 12 March, and these measures were further strengthened on 24 March and
again on 27 March, extended to 5 May to continue to suppress transmission of the virus.
The Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business sets out how the COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted.Ireland is now in Phase 1 of the roadmap.
Right now - the advice is still to stay at home as much as you can.
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