NPHET has urged the government to move to Level 5 after Christmas. The team has also expressed concern over the rising number of Covid cases in the republic, as well as the new strain of the virus present in the UK.
RTÉ News reports that Donnelly said his job right now is to keep people alive, keep people safe over Christmas. On Christmas Day an awful lot of people in every county in this country are going to be sitting down with their families and having a Christmas Day who otherwise wouldn t have been if this virus had been let out of control, he said.