The Government is not planning on bringing more covid restrictions this week as they also have confirmed schools will reopen as planned on Thursday.   It comes as the Department of Health confirmed another 21,302 new Covid-19 cases with 884 people now in hospital with the virus.  For more on this, joining us this morning on the show was Liam Fanning Professor of Immunovirology at UCC.

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