The leaders of the three Coalition parties are due to meet the National Public Health Emergency Team today to discuss the Omicron variant and the wider Covid situation. Daniel McConnell, Political Editor with the Irish Examiner joined us to look ahead to what can we expect from this meeting and also joining us this morning was Liam Fanning, Professor of Immunovirology at UCC to discuss how concerned should be about this new variant.

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