'Choose your friends wisely': Health chiefs warn people in Limerick and Dublin to reduce contacts

Dr. Abigail Collins, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, HSE; Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health; and Rachel Kenna, Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health as they arrived for the Covid-19 update from the Department of Health in Dublin today. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie

People need to plan ahead for a Covid-19 Christmas and Halloween by "choosing their friends wisely", public health chiefs have urged.

Speaking at the latest Department of Health briefing, health experts also warned that people in Dublin and Limerick need to improve their social distancing to help avoid a further spike in cases.