The last 7 days we have seen 11,755 confirmed Covid cases in Ireland with 413 people in hospitals and 73 patients in ICU.

So to get an accurate picture of what our hospitals are looking like now – Anton Savage was joined by Dr .Catherine Motherway The Immediate Past President of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland who said that the government has a difficult decision ahead of the when it come to the easing of restrictions in the current Covid climate.

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