Q&A: What does the return to Level 5 mean?

Restaurants and pubs operating as restaurants will close from 3pm on Christmas Eve, hotels may provide food to guests only after that point. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Micheál Martin has confirmed that the country will enter a fresh period of Covid-19 restrictions.

The Taoiseach said the Government was acting “quickly and aggressively” in response to rising infection rates.