'Patients with non serious illnesses are being advised to visit their GP or pharmacy'

'More people are presenting now with long Covid symptoms and that is a concern'

'Staff in its isolation unit whom, she added, were wearing garments fashioned from bed sheets as they treated elderly people infected with the virus'

'My guess is it will be a milder version that will be more transmissible but less pathogenic'

'Just under 2,000 vaccines were administered in the last month of the vaccine centres in Cavan and Monaghan'

'As of this morning, there are 35 patients with Covid-19 in Cavan General Hospital, two of whom are in ICU'

'The last two waves have been much, much milder'