Covid19: Public attitudes will show in numbers game to stop the spread

As it happens, going by Thursday’s giant jump to 191 cases in a single day, we could be looking at about 450 new cases come tomorrow night, writes Cianan Brennan

If the nation had any doubts as to just how serious the Covid-19 outbreak has become, the chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan’s pronouncements on the HSE’s modelling of the spread of the virus in Ireland earlier this week should have put paid to them.