The National Public Health Emergency Team has said there is an "immediate need to take care and caution", as the reproductive rate of Covid-19 in Ireland now stands at, or above, 1.  For more we were joined by Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory and Chair of the Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group at the Department of Health's National Public Health Emergency Team.

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