The Taoiseach has announced that the entire country will move to Level 5 this week. Here is his full speech. Good evening. All across Europe and much of the rest of the world, Covid-19 infections are on the rise.
I want to speak to you tonight about our country's ongoing battle against the virus, about where we are in that battle and about what is going to happen next.
2020 has been a hard year, and we're not through it yet. Families, individuals and front line workers have sacrificed so much.
So many of the things that cheer us, and that we took for granted, have been taken from us. The reality of this terrible disease is that when we give it opportunities to spread, it spreads.