'We can't have society apartheid': Dr Henry explains NPHET's pub advice

The Auld Dubliner & Olver St John Gogarty, pubs which are closed during the Covid-19 pandemic in Dublin's city centre. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry has said that now is not the time for pubs not serving food to reopen.

Dr Henry, who is also a member of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), said that from international experience, congregated settings and alcohol were not good conditions for transmission of the virus.