Covid-19: People have taken their “foot off the gas”

 

The Chief Medical Officer is warning that we need to make up for the time lost over the last week, when the decline of Covid-19 stalled.
Daily case numbers had been declining rapidly during the first three weeks of level 5 restrictions, but this stopped suddenly over the last seven days.
It’s partially because the average number of close contacts a confirmed case has has increased from 2.6 to 3.2.
Dr Tony Holohan says people have taken their “foot off the gas”.