There’s to be a new alert system employed to alert the general public about the status of the country and particular counties with regard to Covid 19.The new colour-coded alerts will work like traffic lights - The proposed new colour-coded system of Covid-19 alerts would operate like traffic lights, Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris has said. The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) is progressing plans for a new long-term framework for how Ireland lives with Covid-19, which will feature different colour coded levels of alert – red, orange, yellow and blue. Under the proposals, a red alert means a full national lockdown, an orange alert means higher levels of infection and potential regional lockdowns, and yellow alerts will mean the risk is lower, sources have indicated. A blue alert would show the disease has been suppressed.
