The situation with cases of Covid-19 is "volatile" and remains "at high risk", this evening's briefing by the National Public Health Emergency Team has heard.
It comes after an earlier briefing by the Health Service Executive heard that by end of this week there will have been close to 750,000 vaccine doses administered.
Here are five things we learned from the two briefings: Despite restrictions, disease activity is not decreasing The chief executive of the HSE told this afternoon's briefing yhat unfortunately the disease activity in the community is not now decreasing, despite very significant societal restrictions in place Paul Reid said there has been a 9% increase in case numbers in the last week compared to the previous week.