Hospital Pressure Increasing As Covid-19 Rate Remains High
By Hannah Murphy
Beuamont is among the hospitals that reached ICU capacity last night.
6,888 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday and eight more people with the virus have died.
A public health expert claims our rate of spread is one of the highest.
DCU Professor Anthony Staines says case numbers are spiralling:
"The numbers are much higher than I think anyone had feared.
"Our rate has gone up much faster than other European countries.
"That seems to be a mixture of a lot of movement and social activity over Christmas", he said.