Donnelly explains colour-coded Covid-19 levels as system 'we'd recognise from weather warnings'

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said the move to a "colour coded" system for Covid-19 awareness and spread is necessary for the next nine months of living with the virus.

The new system, recommended by public health doctors, will see a move away from the "phases of lockdown" the state had previously used, and will be moving to one similar to that of weather warnings.