Ireland in ‘more difficult’ phase of Covid-19 after six months fighting virus

Hospital staff at the entrance to the Mater Hospital in Dublin. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

The head of the HSE has said that Ireland has reached a “more difficult phase” of Covid-19 as the country marks six months since the first case was detected.

There have been a total of 1,777 people who died with Covid-19 in Ireland, many of them elderly people living in nursing homes.