The Department of Health has been notified of 574 new cases of Covid-19 and a further 56 deaths.  This comes as Ireland could have enough doses of Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate 10.3 million people, the Minister for Health has said.  For more on this Ciara spoke to Tomás Ryan Associate Professor in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin.

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