Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan has raised concerns about the rising number of Delta Variant cases in the country. He said that the latest estimates revealed that the Delta variant accounted for up to 20% of cases reported in the last week. For more on this, we were joined on the show by Liam Fanning, Professor of Immunovirology at UCC.

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