Morning News • 23.02.2021

2 min readFeb 23, 2021

Ireland

Level 5, and 5km, until April 5 under revised Living with Covid plan to be put to Cabinet today.
Junior Infants — 2nd Class & Sixth years expected to be back in school building from Monday
The New Government ‘Living With COVID’ plan won’t contain many dates. Concern is that dates encourage “anticipatory behaviour” and compliance drops.
Minister Stephen Donnelly was forced to issue a clarification last night after appearing on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live and saying that talks between Education Minister Norma Foley and teaching unions had not reached a “done deal”. This came after Minister of State for Special Education Josepha Madigan had indicated on yesterday’s RTÉ Drivetime radio programme that junior and senior infants, as well as first and second class and Leaving Cert students, would return to school from Monday.

After 4 months of inaction, the US Supreme Court has declined Trump’s request to further postpone enforcement of a Manhattan DA subpoena for his financial records. The order clears the way for a NY grand jury to obtain the records & review them in secret.
There are some concerns over getting votes to get Biden’s Budget Office nominee, Neera Tanden, confirmed following moderate Republicans like Susan Collins Mitt Romney voicing their intention to vote against her over some tweets she posted.
The US held a memorial for the 500,000+ Americans who have died from COVID 19
President Biden has his first meeting with another world leader today, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but it will be virtual. They’ll meet this afternoon and then deliver joint statements, with Biden in person and Trudeau via video camera.