Progress enables us 'to be ambitious' in easing restrictions, says Holohan

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, with Dr Ronan Glynn, deputy chief medical officer, and Professor Philip Nolan, chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group at the Covid-19 briefing. Picture: Colin Keegan

Health chiefs have hailed Ireland's steady progress in tackling Covid-19 and claimed the country is moving through the response to the disease in a way that might enable us “to be ambitious” when easing restrictions in the coming months.

Speaking in his first public appearance since the death of his wife Dr Emer Feely in February, chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said as the proportion of the population who is vaccinated increases, additional freedoms will be given which are “commensurate” with the associated risk.