Briefing on the government's response to COVID-19 - Wednesday 3 March 2021
Introduction and up-to-date Public Health Guidance
Good morning,
This week marks one year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ireland and what a year it has been.
Who could have imagined what we were facing into one year ago? These last months, in a way, have been hardest of all because we probably thought we were closer to the end than we were.
It’s also worth saying that who could have imagined we would have several vaccines, approved, in production and being administered. We dared to hope that the collective effort of scientists around the world would yield an early result but it is fair to say, in that regard too, our expectations have been exceeded. Sometimes we forget that.