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Newstalk that people can be optimistic for the summer ahead.
“I am planning my holidays, I am going to be travelling around Ireland as much as possible and getting out of my own county,” he said.
“I am looking very hopefully on the future. I think with the vaccine rollout the way it is going, the general burden of the virus on the country should be dramatically reduced in the coming months.
“With that should come hope and the ability for people to start t, I think, relax and return to an element of normality.”
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Rise of Covid-19 cases in children ‘due to increase in testing’
PA Media 6 hrs ago By Cate McCurry and James Ward, PA © Brian Lawless The National Ambulance Service working at a walk-in test centre on the grounds of Grangegorman Primary Care Centre in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)
A slight rise of Covid-19 cases reported in children is due to an increase in testing and not the reopening of schools, a senior health expert has said.
Professor Philip Nolan, chairman of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said that data shows schools remain a low-risk environment.
Prof Nolan said that a public health investigation looked at incidence of coronavirus infection in children in recent weeks, to assess the impact of the phased return of schoolchildren to the classroom.