'We can save Christmas': CMO says preventing spread of Covid-19 dependent on public behaviour

Tony Holohan  said ‘all key indicators of the disease have deteriorated further in the three days since the last meeting of Nphet on Sunday’.

The country's most senior medic has said the Covid-19 crisis has got even worse in the three days since his team recommended a complete lockdown of the country on Sunday.

In his first Nphet briefing since the Government chose to ignore that advice, chief medical officer Tony Holohan said that the "grave concerns" he outlined to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly are now even greater.