There are 43 patients with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units in hospitals around Ireland today, down two from yesterday.
The total number of people in hospital with the virus today stands at 981, as of 8am. This is a drop of 37 on yesterday's figure.
The latest figures come as the Covid Special Envoy for the World Health Organization said that the pandemic is not over despite many people thinking that we can just get on with life now. "It's not finished," Dr David Nabarro said on RTÉ's Morning Ireland programme. "There are ways we can live [with it], but they do require us just paying attention to what we know about the virus as it is now. " He said that about every two or three months there are surges, often associated with a shift in the actual makeup of the virus and the new strains "will be able to dodge past some of the protection that we get from vaccines, and so that means that, some of us at least, will get several Covids’ perhaps even in a year." We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.
Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Dr Nabarro urged people to get vaccines and keep them up to date.