Government spending on Covid-19 advertising revealed

Leaflets which form part of the public awareness campaign for Covid-19 at Dublin Airport. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

More than €8.72m has been spent by the Government on Covid advertising since the start of the pandemic, it has been revealed.

It comes as Taoiseach Micheál Martin moved to distance himself from a Department of Health decision to hire a private PR firm after criticisms about mixed messaging around Covid.