Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned against Irish people booking flights home for Christmas.  It comes as the Department of health announced a further 1 death and 395 new cases of Covid with 279 people now in hospital with the illness.  For more on this we heard from Dr Colm Henry, HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer.

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