Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has published a winter Covid plan with some worrying restrictions updates as cases of the virus continue to rise.
In the report titled the Strategic Approach for the Management of COVID-19 Preparedness for Autumn/Winter 2022/2023, Chief Medical Officer Professor Breda Smyth said variants of Covid will continue to emerge.
She said: "There remains a risk that some novel variants will possess properties that confer increased transmissibility, reduced susceptibility to available vaccines, resistance to therapeutics, or altered disease severity.
