Zero Covid could not be realistically sustained, says health chief

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The chief clinical officer of the HSE, Dr Colm Henry has said that while everyone aspired to zero-Covid, the issue was could it be realistically sustained.

“We all aspire to zero Covid and what we're trying to do now is the suppression of the huge levels of infection that we're seeing in the community, we're still seeing an average over the last five days of 1,200 cases per day which is half what it was last week, but it's still far too high,” he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.