Cabinet will meet today to discuss current covid restrictions with NPHET set to have their own meeting on Thursday before making their own recommendations to the government. But as speculation mounts that restrictions will ease in February, will the public back such a move?  To discuss this further Shane spoke to Pete Lunn Founder and head of the ESRI's Behavioural Research Unit.

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