Additional measures may be required to stem Covid-19 surge – CMO

Additional measures, on top of Level 5 restrictions, may be needed, Dr Holohan said in the Nphet letter.

Additional measures may be required to stem the current surge in Covid-19 infections, the Chief Medical Officer has warned.

In a letter from the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) to government on Wednesday, Dr Tony Holohan warned that the Covid-19 situation was deteriorating “very substantially” and infection rates were at their “most concerning” since the onset of the pandemic ten months ago.