The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet today to discuss its advice to the Government on the easing of further Covid-19 restrictions.
This Friday is meant to be our so called ‘Freedom Day’ with the lifting of the majority of pandemic rules, such as limits on large gatherings and night-time openings for pubs and nightclubs.
However, Covid cases have been rising. There were more than 1,300 new cases yesterday, and 470 Covid patients in hospital.
Professor of Immunovirology at UCC , Liam Fanning, feels it’s embarrassing that Ireland isn’t using antigen testing more;
"There's a paralysis going on there, I don't understand it, nobody can understand it, nobody has come out and said we're not using them or we're not making them freely available."
He says a few tens of millions on providing free antigen tests will prevent onward transmission of the disease.
