Covid-19: Health service needs to prepare for 'subsequent waves' of the virus

HSE chief Paul Reid says behavioural, societal and healthcare changes will be needed to handle Covid-19. File Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The health service needs to plan for "subsequent waves of Covid-19", the head of the HSE has warned.

Even with the development of a vaccine, societal changes will be needed, Paul Reid told the Oireachtas Covid Committee.