Where the numbers go next, he told us breezily, depended on what we do for the next few weeks. There has been a whole lot of understandable back-and-forth about the protocols surrounding how to manage indoor hospitality. We’re getting there, but it’s not perfect and not having all the answers, and having to cope with endless delays and frustrations, is certainly sub-optimal. Next steps will be to begin the work of getting children inoculated and also, to organise the much-discussed Covid-19 booster shot. Yet compared to where we were, there are reasons to be cheerful.

Source: Irish Independent July 24, 2021 01:30 UTC