HSE Chief Paul Reid: 'A winter like we've never experienced before'

Mr Reid said that we now need to "call out" behaviours such as gatherings of students in Galway this week but also family celebrations.Photograph: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The head of the HSE has warned that "it's going to be a winter like we have never experienced before."

Urging people to change their behaviour, HSE chief executive Paul Reid has said 75% of Covid outbreaks were in homes last week "The reality is 26% of our positive cases last week were in the 15-24 age group - that transmits into homes and there it transmits rapidly," he said.