What was claimed
The government's roadmap to ease Covid-19 restrictions will be set out in 5 phases.
Our verdict
This is the plan from the Irish government.
Facebook post on Ireland’s plans for exiting lockdown goes viral
6 May 2020
A Facebook post with almost 50,000 shares from a UK-based page has made a number of claims about a phased timetable for exiting lockdown. The post describes the plans in Ireland.
“‼‼Important update‼‼
Government's roadmap to ease Covid-19 restrictions will be set out in 5 phases. These phases will be on 3 week review process, the current phases would commence on the following dates:
Phase 1 - 18th May
Phase 2 - 8th June
Phase 3 - 29th June
Phase 4 - 20th July
Phase 5 - 10th August”
Coronavirus Protection Facebook page, 4 May 2020
The Irish government has published its plans for a phased reopening of things like businesses and schools and a lifting of restrictions on social gatherings, following lockdown measures to control the spread of Covid-19. As the post claims, this will occur in five phases starting at various points between 18 May and 10 August.
The Facebook post goes on to accurately describe each of the phases, although the Irish government says these are subject to change depending on the available evidence.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as true because the post is a summary of the phases of reopening in Ireland.