Ireland has gone from having the best covid rate to the worst in the world. It comes as the Department of Health announced 4,929 new cases of covid 19 while the number of people in intensive care is up by 21 to 146. For more we heard from Sam McConkey Infectious Disease Specialist at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
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