Tony Holohan: Asking young people to limit social contacts not 'finger-pointing'

Dr Tony Holohan said Ireland was facing a “very significant surge” of cases of Covid, with a rapid rise in the infection rate among those aged from 16 to 34 years. Photo: Julien Behal

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Tony Holohan has said that his call for young people to limit their social contacts was not “finger-pointing”.

The rapid rise in cases in the 16- to 34-year-old group was happening not just in Ireland, but also in the UK and across Europe. The spread of the virus in that cohort was an epidemiological fact, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.