Calls for 'meaningless' daily Covid-19 updates to be scrapped for weekly figures

Doctors are calling for the daily Covid-19 updates by Dr Ronan Glynn (pictured) of NPHET to be done on a weekly basis like other European countries. File picture: Colin Keegan

There are calls for NPHET to stop publishing Covid-19 figures every day, suggesting they do it on a weekly basis instead.

It is being claimed that the daily announcement of case numbers and deaths due to coronavirus is causing unnecessary anxiety.