In today's episode, the EU Health Security Committee said on Tuesday that member states agreed on a "coordinated approach" to the changing Covid situation, including implications for increased travel from China.  In other news, it emerged on Tuesday that fine dodgers have amassed over 26,000 unpaid fines at a cost of €21.4m, but the police are hoping that their recently appointed fine collecting unit will get the situation under control. And the Labour Minister said that a meeting between all sides has been set for next week in a bid to clinch some arrangement staving off strike action threatened by trade unions of the Electricity Authority.

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