Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said the number of people with Covid-19 in hospital has fallen by 38pc in the past fortnight. “Since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Ireland last February, our lives have changed in ways we never thought possible,” he said this evening. “We have seen week on week reductions in case numbers over the past six weeks and we are on track to have an incidence which is amongst the lowest in Europe. It was notified of 612 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Separately, an expert has said that a handshake greeting may become a thing of the past as a result of Covid-19.

Source: Irish Independent February 28, 2021 17:43 UTC