The Tánaiste is warning that we could be at the start of a ‘summer wave’ of Covid-19.
The number of patients in hospital across the country with the virus has almost doubled over the past two weeks, going from 183 to 355.
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University Hospital Limerick has the highest number of Covid patients in the county, where 43 are being treated for the virus, up from 19 this day last week.
The number of Covid patients in ICU remains quite stable, at 24, with 2 of those at UHL.
Leo Varadkar says immunity is waning – and is urging people to get their booster, if they haven’t done so.
Immunologist Luke O’Neill, who’s a member of the Government’s Covid Advisory Group, expects another booster campaign to be launched in the autumn.
