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ARTICLE · 02 NOVEMBER 2020

COVID-19: Level 5 – Key Issues For Retailers

Ireland is now at Level 5, the highest level of the Government's Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19

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Ireland is now at Level 5, the highest level of the Government's Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19.

Once again, retailers across the country are getting to grips with the latest emergency measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19 and the kind of trading that is and is not permitted under Level 5.

New Regulations have been introduced making it an offence for people to leave their homes without reasonable excuse. The Regulations set out a non-exhaustive list of what might be a "reasonable excuse", and this list includes:

  • leaving your home to go to an essential retail outlet for the purpose of obtaining items or accessing services for yourself, someone else who lives with you or for a vulnerable person; and

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