All is quiet for New Year’s Day
Revellers will swap high stools for couches, and restaurant dining for kitchen tables when ringing in the New Year – as pubs and restaurants stay closed for the first time in the history of the State on two of their busiest days of the year.
That sense of deflation on the economic front was in contrast to the positive news on the virus itself as the first vaccine was administered this week at UHG – with a timetable released for the roll-out to every nursing home across the county.
Lorna Quinn, Assistant Director of Nursing and peer vaccinator at UHG, who was the first person to receive the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Galway, from her colleague Michelle McNamara Nee. Ms Quinn was one of 500 staff at the city hospital who will get their first dose by New Year’s Day.
Meanwhile, the rollout of vaccines to long-term care and nursing homes begins in Galway on January 14 with Corrandulla Residential Nursing Home, Áras Mhic Dara in An Cheathrú Rua and Unit 5&6 of Merlin Park first up on the list.
The last four local homes – Coral Haven in Ballinfoile, Mountbellew, Blake Manor in Ballinderreen and Brampton in Oranmore – are in line for vaccinations on January 29.
But as the first signs of an end to the pandemic emerged on that front, the economic impact of the latest restrictions were hitting home harder than ever.
Hundreds of bars and restaurants right across Galway shuttered at 3pm on Christmas Eve, not knowing when – or if – they will reopen again, as the Government’s third Lockdown kicked in.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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