Covid 'hasn’t gone away' as hospitalisations rise and 21,098 cases confirmed 

People have been urged to "rekindle old public health habits" such as hand washing and mask-wearing. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

There is a need for the public to be sensible and responsible about public health measures to combat the current rise in Covid-19 cases, a leading medic has said. 

The chair of the Irish Medical Organisation’s GP committee, Dr Denis McCauley, said that doctors were seeing a surge in Covid cases with some people getting quite ill.