New restrictions sees country effectively in lockdown until Easter Sunday

An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tonight announced a host of new restrictions which effectively amount to a two week lockdown in the Republic. 
The measures take effect from midnight tonight and last until Easter Sunday, April 12.

An Taoiseach outlined that everyone must stay at home in all cricumstances except for the following: 
To travel to and from work, where work is an essential service, and cannot be done from home; to shop for food or household goods; to attend medical appointments or collect prescriptions; for vital family reasons; to take brief physical exercise, but only within 2km of your own home; and for farming purposes.  
He stressed that all public or social gatherings are prohibited.
Non-essential shops and services will be closed, and what amounts to 'essential' retail outlets will be revised. Persons over 70 years old and those with chronic illness will be "cocooned". 
"Apart from the activities that I have listed, there should be no travel outside of two kilometres from your home - for any reason," he emphasised. 
While Taoiseach Leo Varadkar shied away from using the term "lockdown" he admitted there was little scope to enforce any more arduous restrictions. 
The development comes as three more patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Republic died, bringing the total number of deaths related to the virus to 22. There were also 302 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 announced, bringing the total to 2,121.