Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said today that a further lockdown cannot be ''entirely ruled out''.
There were over 2,600 cases reported today despite the fact that 93% of adults are vaccinated.
Prof Ruairi Brugha, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at Royal College of Surgeons and Dr Deirdre Robertson, ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit joined the Last Word to discuss.
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