Head of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has warned that early this week the number of people with Covid-19 in hospital is likely to be "double" what it was at the peak of last year, which was 881. It comes as the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has more than quadrupled in the last two weeks. For more we’re joined by Dr Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine physician at St James' Hospital in Dublin and Neal Donohue, INMO Industrial Relations Officer for the North West.
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