Covid-19: Taoiseach dismisses Varadkar's warning of travel ban to the North

A spokesperson for Taoiseach Micheál Martin said 'there has never been a ban on North-South travel, nor will there be'. File picture. 

The Taoiseach has dismissed a warning given by the Tánaiste that travel to the North could be stopped because of high Covid levels across the border.

Leo Varadkar told his party colleagues that the public could be advised not to travel to the North as levels of the virus remain much higher in the six counties.