Tánaiste says delay to opening of indoor dining is "not inevitable"

NPHET will meet today to give advice to government on the spread of the Delta variant

While Ministers are hopeful of being given advice from NIAC on the use of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in under 50s. 

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar says decisions on re-opening tomorrow will be cautious:

"You know we'll have to see all the advice, received the presentations today and tomorrow and make a decision, and the one thing though that I can say to everyone, citizens, employers, employees, we want to avoid is having to go backwards. And we want to avoid a situation whereby."

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