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The transmission of the coronavirus infection within the general population has been “effectively suppressed”, but restrictions as things stand are unlikely to be loosened in 12 days time.

That was the message delivered at the latest nightly briefing by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) in Dublin, on a day when Ireland’s death toll from Covid-19 rose by 28.