Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said existing delays in vaccine deliveries will not prevent an easing of Covid-19 restrictions after April 5th but said any changes would be “very modest”. “So we’re very much going in the right direction and I think that the delay in the vaccine deliveries won’t prevent us from easing restrictions on the 5th of April but we only ever intended to do some very modest easing anyway.”The Fine Gael leader said that click-and-collect shopping was currently not allowed but was catered for under Level 5 restrictions. He later told a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting no decision on easing restrictions would be made until the week leading up to April 5th, warning that the focus would be to not jeopardise schools and childcare. Mr Martin said: “In the week leading into the 5th [of April] we will have this situation reviewed. The Level 5 restrictions were working, real progress was being made with the number of cases reducing.

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2021 15:04 UTC