A full level five lockdown would be the only effective way to suppress the current surge of Covid-19 infections, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has told Opposition TDs.
But the Government is not going to introduce such restrictions and public health advice has not changed, according to Minister Donnelly.
He told opposition party health spokespeople that the BA.2 variant is so transmissible that the only possible way of containing the disease would be for Ireland to move to a full lockdown.
