Covid-19: NI and Ireland Chief Medical Officers urge everyone to stay home

Both CMOS urged the public to remain at home while infection rates for Covid-19 are high. File picture. 

Chief Medical Officers in Northern Ireland and Ireland have voiced their concerns about the high levels of Covid-19 and are urging everyone to stay home.

Chief Medical Officers Dr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said: “As CMOs, we are gravely concerned about the unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection we are experiencing on the island of Ireland.