Q&A: What will Christmas be like post-lockdown? 

Hopes country can move at least to level 3 for much of December

A passenger bids farewell in a quiet Dublin Airport   on Monday  afternoon as the countdown to the end of  level 5 Covid restrictions approaches. Picture Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

With just days until an announcement, all eyes are now on the Government's plans to exit the level 5 lockdown which began five weeks ago.

While daily case numbers have been falling, fear has been sounded that they will not be down at the 100 per day which NPHET hoped for at the beginning of the lockdown.