The country has two weeks to stop national lockdown as the virus is growing at the same rate across the country as it is in Dublin .That was the warning from Professor Philip Nolan at last night's press conference on Covid-19. Is lockdown and restrictions the way to go – or do we need to look at a way to live with the virus? To discuss where heard from Professor Gerry Killeen, Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology in UCC and University College Cork Biochemistry Professor Tom Cotter .

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