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The Health Department has announced another 4,962 new cases and seven more deaths tonight.
It is the latest major surge in Ireland’s third wave, which has seen record numbers of cases and skyrocketing numbers of hospitals.
Eamon Ryan has suggested that the 5km exercise limit could be lowered to just 2km if Covid-19 continues to spread across Ireland.
Ryan told Newstalk this morning: “The level of contact we have is always in our hands, so if that is, for example, the reduction of travel restrictions from 5km to 2km, which we did in March and Last April, and there are a variety of other different measurements that we could look at.
“But that’s for a week or two, if we find that the numbers aren’t starting to flatten out and decline.
“I think they can, nothing is for sure, but my sense of looking at traffic numbers and anecdotally from friends, I think the Irish are very aware of the risks and the stakes.
“I think collectively we have been fine in the last nine months and we will be this week, shutting down tight, avoiding contacts and simple measures like that are the way to handle this.
“And I think that if we all do that, we will see those numbers start to drop again and we will avoid the worst consequences for our hospitals.”
We will have the latest updates overnight on our blog live right here.
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