'Guaranteed' that 'second wave will come when they ease restrictions', says UCC professor

It comes after another four people with coronavirus died in Ireland, bringing the death toll to 1,608.

Update: Professor Gerry Killeen, Research Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences in University College Cork has warned that there will be repeated waves and surges of Covid-19 for the next four years.

It was not good enough to flatten the curve - it needed to be crushed, he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.