Almost 40,000 Covid cases were logged over the weekend with 1,624 now in hospital. For more on the increasing COVID case numbers, Newstalk Breakfast spoke to the Chief Clinical officer with the HSE, Dr Colm Henry, and Dr. Eoghan de Barra, Senior Lecturer in the RCSI and Infectious Diseases consultant in Beaumont Hospital.

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