The government cannot rule out “taking measures” to stop the impact covid is happening across the country.
There are many positives in opening society but it is having an impact on our hospital service, like it is across the world. We can never rule out measures to stop that impact.
It’s understood that the main concern is the number of people in ICU with the HSE saying that levels are rapidly going towards crisis levels and that many people are very sick across the country.
HSE chief Paul Reid called the situation with Covid-19 in hospitals grim.
The cabinet committee on Covid-19 will met with NPHET again this week with predictions said to be very bad over the coming weeks.
The meeting took into account the latest views of the national public health emergency team and Dr Tony Holohan.
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