Ireland is experiencing a Covid surge, but people are reluctant to recognise it, the chair of the Irish Medical Organisation's GP sub-committee has said.
Dr Denis McCauley said the number of people with Covid-19 in hospitals is going up and ICU numbers are also slowly creeping up.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, the Donegal-based GP said that while people are not getting very ill, there is still a lot of illness. "I think there is a problem and I think we need to recognise it," he said.
There were 1,339 people with Covid-19 in hospitals around the country as of yesterday morning. Of these, 61 people were in ICUs with the virus.