The latest on COVID19 today

The latest developments on the fight against COVID19 as the virus continues to disrupt everyday life.

• The number of cases of Covid-19 among healthcare workers has fallen from 16% to 4% as the effect of the vaccine roll-out is being praised.

  HSE CEO Paul Reid says serial testing within nursing homes is also showing a positivity rate of 0.2%

• Ireland is in line to get an extra 46,500 Pfizer vaccines this month.

  It comes after the European Commission secured an extra 4 million doses of the vaccine. 

• The Taoiseach has suggested the majority of Level 5 restrictions will be extended into the middle of May.

  Micheál Martin has told the Dáil the lockdown measures will be reviewed a week before April 5th and new measures put in place for a further six weeks. 

• 47 New Deaths, 631 New Cases - 41 here in Cork