Monday. It's a bank holiday Monday here in Ireland, and this has been an interesting weekend. On Friday, the government announced another two weeks of lockdown, but with a slight easing of some restrictions. The 2km limit for your daily exercise etc, is to be extended to 5km from tomorrow, and those over 70 – until now being asked to ‘cocoon' and not leave their houses – will be permitted to do so within the existing guidelines. There was also a roadmap towards things returning to some kind of normality, a phased process which will see the reopening of businesses, services and so on. It makes sense to do it that way, I guess, but moving from one phase to the next will depend on...
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