Cork and Waterford among counties on Covid alert as Level Three extended to Donegal

Counties Cork, Louth, Waterford, Wicklow, Kildare and Galway have been put on alert as a spike in Covid cases has seen Donegal move to level 3 restrictions. 

Counties Cork, Louth, Waterford, Wicklow, Kildare and Galway have been put on alert as a spike in Covid cases has seen Donegal move to level 3 restrictions.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has made a direct appeal to the public to limit their social contacts as much as possible, stating it is "only we as a people acting together, and holding firm in a spirit of solidarity that can slow its destructive spread".