It’s extraordinary that sufficient details of this family were given so as to identify them and expose them to victim blaming and racist commentary - it raises significant issues about privacy issues about individuals with #Covid19 https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/up-to-14-members-of-the-same-family-at-centre-of-covid-cluster-in-sligo-1008362.html

Back it March here is #TonyHolohan on his refusal to name the ‘male patient at a school in the east of the country’

‘There’s something here that we’re protecting, the identity of an individual, to create an environment in which members of the public can feel free to report symptoms – free that when they report those symptoms that they’re not going to be the subject of unwanted scrutiny’

The government has repeatedly said that privacy for an individual is crucial when communicating #covid19 cases to the public - a strategy that is in line with @WHO guidance and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

If a decision needs to be made about foreign travel and people holidaying abroad then the government needs to stop sitting on the fence and make it - instead of blaming and identifying people which encourages division, anxiety and anger and in this case, racism