Dr Tony Holohan was optimistic about the further lifting of restrictions at today's NPHET briefing.

There were 1,408 cases reported, 152 patients are in hospital with Covid-19, including 26 in ICU.

Kingston Mills Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Catherine Motherway Intensive Care Consultant at UHL and Priscilla Lynch Clinical Editor of the Medical Independent join The Last Word to discuss.

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